Prediction Markets Trader
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Tyr Capital is an alternative asset manager focused on the digital asset space.
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About Tyr Capital
Founded in 2018, Tyr Capital is an award-winning alternative asset manager focused on the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, particularly yield generation. Its approach targets consistent, risk-adjusted capital appreciation and draws on trading experience across asset classes.
Skills
About the Role
Own the full lifecycle of prediction-market trading strategies, from research and backtesting through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Run event-neutral, arbitrage, and relative-value strategies; build execution and risk tooling; establish trading guardrails; coordinate operational processes; and report performance using trading metrics.
Requirements
- Have 2+ years of systematic or semi-systematic trading, sports or exchange betting, options arbitrage, or market-making experience.
- Have 12+ months of real-capital trading experience on Kalshi, Polymarket, or an equivalent venue, with verifiable P&L.
- Have deployed live strategies through adverse market regimes and liquidity droughts.
- Know Python, including pandas, NumPy, and asynchronous I/O.
- Know APIs, WebSockets, and basic SQL.
- Understand portfolio construction under capital and counterparty or exchange risk constraints.
- Have crypto-native and traditional finance experience involving controls, auditability, and operational and compliance handoffs.
Responsibilities
- Own the full strategy lifecycle, including research, backtesting, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Run event-neutral, arbitrage, and relative-value strategies across multiple venues.
- Build and maintain execution and risk tooling.
- Codify hard limits, pre-trade checks, and post-trade reports with operations.
- Exploit fee, liquidity, settlement, timing, and cross-venue structural edges.
- Coordinate onboarding, KYC, wallets, custody, and daily P&L with operations.
- Report hit rates, expected value versus realized results, and Sharpe Ratio.
