Quant Trader / Researcher, Exchange Market Making
Role Type: Full time
Team: Quantitative Trading and Market Making
- Design and implement exchange based market making strategies across equities, futures, options, FX, digital assets, or other liquid products.
- Build or improve quoting, pricing, and inventory management models used in automated market making.
- Create alpha driven components that enhance spreads, skew, or order placement logic.
- Work with engineers and QDs to develop robust trading pipelines, including signal generation, parameter engines, risk controls, and monitoring.
- Analyze exchange microstructure and optimize strategies for matching engine behavior, queue dynamics, and latency constraints.
- Perform post trade analytics, PnL decomposition, and model attribution to identify improvements.
- Support the expansion of the existing OTC franchise by aligning cross venue views, risk frameworks, and market insights.
- Maintain strong risk discipline while managing inventory and quoting obligations in real time.
- Strong experience building or operating systematic strategies in a market making or liquidity provision role.
- Proficiency in Python or C++ and comfort working in a production Linux environment.
- Deep understanding of exchange microstructure, order books, and real time decision systems.
- Ability to reason quantitatively and empirically with large datasets.
- Solid understanding of statistical modeling or time series methods.
- Experience working directly with live trading systems or real time research frameworks.
- Prior work on quoting engines, pricing libraries, or exchange MM platforms.
- Experience in high throughput environments using colocation, fast data feeds, and custom connectivity.
- Knowledge of risk management across OTC and exchange venues.
- Cross asset exposure: crypto, futures, options, rates, FX, equities, or commodities.
- Proven revenue contribution or strategy ownership in a previous role.
- Rare chance to influence the design of a new exchange trading platform backed by an already successful market making team.
- High ownership: from research to deployment to optimization.
- Collaborative culture that merges quantitative rigor with fast iteration.
- Competitive compensation aligned with performance and impact.
- Flexibility to work across products and build multi asset expertise.
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