Senior Quant Engineer
Skills
About the Role
You will design and build market-making engines, including pricing, quoting, inventory management, and hedging logic. You will develop and maintain real-time risk and exposure management systems with limits, monitoring frameworks, and kill-switch mechanisms. You will own architectural decisions for performance, scalability, and system resilience, integrate trading logic with on-chain protocols, and improve tooling, workflows, and deployment safety.
Requirements
- Bridge research and development (not a pure researcher nor a pure developer)
- Deep hands-on experience building order book market making strategies, specifically passive maker-oriented strategies
- Ability to model, build, backtest, deploy, and iterate trading systems end to end
- Ability to articulate and evaluate market making model approaches such as Avellaneda-Stoikov and machine learning and their trade-offs
- Based in or willing to relocate to Zürich area (3 days per week in office required)
Responsibilities
- Design and build market-making engines, including pricing, quoting, inventory management, and hedging logic
- Develop and maintain real-time risk and exposure management systems, including limits, monitoring frameworks, and kill-switch mechanisms
- Own architectural decisions related to performance, scalability, and system resilience
- Collaborate with on-chain and protocol teams to integrate trading logic into broader infrastructure
- Improve tooling, workflows, and deployment safety to enable faster iteration without compromising control
Benefits
- Work with the founders in person in Switzerland
- Travel opportunities to industry events
- In-person offsites worldwide