Quantitative Researcher
Polymarket is a decentralized information markets platform that lets users bet on the outcome of real-world events.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Polymarket
Polymarket is an information markets platform where users can trade on the outcomes of various events, leveraging the power of free markets to forecast the future. It provides a mechanism for users to bet on real-world events and earn money based on the outcomes.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and maintain spot-price aggregation, funding-rate, and margin methodologies for perpetual futures. You will write implementation-ready specifications, ship research into production, monitor live model performance, investigate anomalies, and refine models as market conditions expose failure modes.
Requirements
- Experience at a perpetuals exchange or HFT firm
- Knowledge of perpetual exchange mechanics, funding rates, index aggregation, and margin models
- Market microstructure knowledge
- Python
- Ability to implement research in production code
- Experience with multi-source price aggregation or oracle systems
- Experience in execution or market making
- Familiarity with on-chain data sources and decentralized price feeds
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain spot-price aggregation methodologies across external venues
- Build and calibrate funding-rate formulas
- Analyze new asset listings to set margin, leverage, and open-interest parameters
- Write rigorous pricing and edge-case specifications
- Ship research into production and own continuously running systems
- Monitor live model performance and investigate pricing anomalies
Benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Health coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401k match
- MacBook Pro, display, and accessories
