Quantitative Researcher
Selini Capital provides systematic trading and liquidity across digital asset markets while investing in early-stage crypto projects.
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About Selini Capital
Selini Capital is a multi-strategy trading firm specializing in systematic market making and venture investing within digital assets. The firm provides liquidity across centralized and decentralized exchanges, executes algorithmic trading strategies, and invests in early-stage DeFi and blockchain infrastructure projects. Selini combines quantitative trading expertise with strategic capital deployment.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Join Selini Capital's high-frequency trading team to refine features, design models, advance research pipelines, and use empirical analysis to improve performance in electronic markets.
Requirements
- 2-7 years of experience in quantitative research, applied machine learning, or statistics.
- Fluency in Python and/or C++ with the ability to create performant, production-ready implementations.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms, linear algebra, statistics, and optimization.
- Ability to analyze high-frequency market data, extract alpha signals, and model order book behavior.
- Ability to take research ideas from concept through experimental evaluation with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities
- Design, test, and refine features and model architectures to improve prediction and execution performance.
- Develop research pipelines and tools for large-scale strategy simulation and optimization on a compute cluster.
- Analyze market data, live strategy behavior, and model outputs to guide iterative improvements.
- Apply advances in quantitative methods, machine learning, and optimization to real-world trading challenges.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Free lunch ordered to the office every day
- Competitive annual leave and pension contribution
- High-spec office with state-of-the-art equipment and standing desks
- Monthly team breakfast
- Regular London onsites, team dinners, and evening events
- Annual company offsite
- Inter-office travel encouraged