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Quant Trader

Location
New York, NY
Work type
Full Time
Posted
2026-08-03

Job description

Responsibilities
Develop and deploy trading strategies, with a focus on perpetual futures and other derivatives markets.
Use Codex, Claude, Cursor, and other AI-native tools to analyze data, prototype tools, automate workflows, and accelerate decision-making.
Apply the latest machine learning models to high- and mid-frequency trading problems, including arbitrage detection, liquidity provision, market making, signal generation, and risk monitoring.
Implement features on exchanges, contribute to trading infrastructure, and automate trading processes.
Propose and evaluate new exchange mechanics, including liquidity provision, vault design, market listing incentives, funding models, liquidation logic, and risk controls.
Monitor live markets, liquidity, positions, margin, liquidations, and abnormal trading behavior in real time.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience in trading, quantitative research, market making, exchange operations, HFT, or a similarly rigorous environment.
Strong understanding of derivatives, especially perpetual futures, order books, margin, funding, liquidation, liquidity, and risk.
Strong programming fundamentals; comfortable writing scripts, querying databases, debugging systems, and building internal tools.
Fluent with AI coding and research tools such as Codex, Claude, Cursor, or similar agentic workflows.
High agency, operational intensity, and effective communication; comfortable working close to production systems and acting under uncertainty.

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