Senior Quantitative Researcher - HFT / Market Making - #2194823

A proprietary trading firm is looking for an experienced quantitative researcher to develop and improve short-horizon trading strategies in digital-asset markets.

This is a hands-on HFT research role for someone who understands how alpha, execution and market microstructure interact in live trading. You will take ideas from initial hypothesis through empirical validation and into production, then use live results to refine the strategy.

The Role

1. Research and develop short-horizon trading strategies.
2. Identify predictive signals from order-book behaviour, trade flow and market dynamics.
3. Test hypotheses using historical market data and rigorous backtesting.
4. Work with developers to move successful research into live trading.
5. Analyse live performance and post-trade behaviour to improve strategy logic.
6. Evaluate execution quality, signal decay and implementation effects.
7. Contribute to the continuous development of live HFT and market-making strategies.

The Profile:-

We are looking for someone with meaningful experience in HFT, market making or closely related short-horizon quantitative trading .

You should have strong evidence of several of the following:

1. research contributing to successful live trading strategies
2. market microstructure and order-book mechanics
3. short-horizon alpha generation
4. execution, slippage and adverse selection
5. systematic strategy research from idea through live implementation
6. disciplined backtesting and performance evaluation
7. strong quantitative data analysis
8. Python or similar research programming

Experience in crypto HFT is particularly relevant, although strong experience from traditional electronic markets can also translate.

Additional exposure to cross-venue strategies, decentralised markets or deeper execution research would be useful.

The Opportunity

The attraction is genuine research ownership. This is not a role where research stops at a backtest: strong ideas are expected to progress towards live trading and be judged against real market outcomes.

Location: Remote within selected European locations.

For a confidential discussion, please get in touch.