Crypto Manager Research Analyst
Numeus is a diversified digital-asset investment company offering liquid, actively managed investment solutions to professional investors.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Numeus
Numeus develops financial products and services intended to provide investors with diversified, alpha-focused exposure to digital-asset opportunities. Its operating platform combines data, scalable computing, research tools, low-latency exchange access, and institutional risk management. Its asset-management division, Forteus, offers strategies including Bitcoin collateral income, uncorrelated crypto alpha, and liquid-token selection.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will conduct in-depth due diligence on quantitative and systematic crypto strategies, assess their construction, signals, risk management, capacity, and performance, and evaluate managers’ research processes and capabilities. You will maintain strategy and manager data, track developments and risks, monitor managed accounts, prepare research reports, investigate alerts, and contribute to thematic studies and investment recommendations.
Requirements
- Strong quantitative background in finance mathematics physics engineering computer science or a related field
- Experience analyzing running or assessing quantitative or systematic trading strategies
- Understanding of statistics financial markets and risk metrics
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Working knowledge of Excel SQL Python and AI tools
- Experience with crypto-native strategies and cross-asset arbitrage or relative value strategies
- 3–5 years of experience in fund or manager research allocator prime brokerage or fund-of-funds environments
- Familiarity with crypto market structure exchanges custody on-chain data derivatives and operational or counterparty risks
- CFA CAIA or FRM certification is a plus
Responsibilities
- Conduct due diligence on quantitative and systematic crypto strategies
- Assess strategy construction signal generation risk management capacity and historical performance
- Evaluate managers’ quantitative research processes infrastructure and capabilities
- Conduct research visits and manager calls
- Produce structured research notes due diligence reports and portfolio reviews
- Maintain databases of strategies managers and performance data
- Track strategy evolution AUM personnel changes and risk events
- Define and calibrate manager and strategy risk limits
- Monitor managed accounts for deviations style drift and emerging risks
- Run regular performance and risk updates
- Review the manager universe and identify new managers
- Investigate strategy breaches and alerts
- Engage managers and support remediation resizing or escalation recommendations
- Contribute to research projects and thematic studies on quantitative and crypto market trends
Benefits
- Central Zurich location
