Junior Quantitative Trader Research
Acheron Trading is a digital asset market maker that provides robust, tradable liquidity across a broad price spectrum, ensuring efficient price discovery and sustainable market depth for digital assets. They serve innovators and institutional clients building on centralized and decentralized exchanges worldwide.
About Acheron Trading
Acheron Trading provides liquidity and market-making services for the digital assets industry, offering principal market making (PMM), designated market making (DMM), managed execution, and a technology provider offering (Command Station) for professional trading infrastructure and software licensing with consulting. The firm emphasizes transparency and real-time execution to support efficient price discovery and sustainable market depth across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Its team is composed of domain experts in pure and applied mathematics, computer science, actuarial/risk management sciences, economics, consulting, accounting, and regulatory matters, with members having prior experience at firms such as Goldman Sachs, PwC, and Macquarie Group, and ties to academic institutions including Princeton, Cornell, and MIT. Acheron Trading's clients are primarily innovators and institutions operating in the digital asset markets across both centralized and decentralized exchange venues.
Skills
About the Role
You support traders and proprietary leads by monitoring trading operations, conducting research, assisting with strategy and algorithm deployment, executing trades, rebalancing assets, tracking client treasury balances, preparing reports, and responding to client questions. You receive hands-on training in digital asset trading and liquidity strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, or a related technical field
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Interest in trading and market structure
- Basic understanding of digital asset markets
- Attention to detail
- Ability to make decisions under pressure
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Python, SQL, or another programming language preferred
- Market making, trading, or execution services experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Support the structured data room build
- Lead and contribute to research initiatives
- Support deployment of algorithms, clients, and markets
- Monitor and respond to trading alerts
- Assist with active trading
- Assist with trade execution
- Assist with asset rebalancing
- Track client treasury balances
- Provide recurring and ad-hoc trading reports
- Respond to client questions
- Escalate questions to senior traders
Benefits
- Employee Revenue Share Bonus Pool paid semiannually
