Quantitative Researcher - Digital Assets Liquidity (EMEA)

About the Role

Join our innovative team as a Quantitative Researcher to shape Keyrock ’s trading strategies and support market-making and proprietary trading initiatives in the digital assets space.

Responsibilities

• Market-making and optimal quoting of HL assets (CeFi and DeFi).
• Researching and building proprietary trading algorithms for high- and mid-frequency strategies on spot, perpetual, and futures/forwards markets.
• Trading and hedging both cryptocurrencies and FX.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in quantitative research at a bank, asset manager, or trading firm.
• Strong analytical capabilities and comfort with financial markets and trading algorithms in order books.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Good communicator.
• Programming skills in Python.
• Prior experience in building or researching trading algorithms.
• A passion for algorithmic trading.
• The ability to take ownership of a project while collaborating with colleagues.
• Fluency in English.

Nice-to-Haves

• A master-level degree or PhD in a relevant hard science (eg. maths, statistics, astronomy, physics, quant finance etc.).

Role Impact

• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and quantitative traders to achieve mission goals.
• Directly influence and shape Keyrock’s trading strategies.
• Contribute to initiatives in digital assets, including CeFi, DeFi, crypto, and FX markets.