DeFi Quant Researcher

As a DeFi Quant Researcher at AlgoQuant Asset Management, you design, test, and deploy systematic strategies native to decentralised markets. This is a deeply technical, research-first role where you understand on-chain mechanics from first principles and generate alpha from DeFi-specific signals: liquidity dynamics, protocol incentive structures, on-chain order flow, and cross-protocol arbitrage. You own your research end-to-end, working directly with portfolio managers and engineers who move at your pace. AlgoQuant is hiring researchers based in Asia or US timezones to ensure coverage of key DeFi market hours and fast iteration on live strategy performance.

What you'll do

• Research and develop systematic trading strategies across DeFi protocols including AMMs, lending markets, perpetuals, yield vaults, and cross-chain venues
• Build and validate alpha signals from on-chain data: liquidity flows, wallet behaviour, MEV dynamics, funding rates, and protocol-level incentives
• Analyse smart contract mechanics and tokenomics to identify structural edges
• Run rigorous backtests and simulations, accounting for on-chain-specific issues: gas costs, slippage, block timing, and data availability
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy strategies into live capital
• Monitor live performance and iterate rapidly on results
• Contribute to shared research infrastructure, on-chain data pipelines, and tooling

What you bring

• A strong mathematical or scientific background: top-decile graduate or postgraduate qualification in maths, physics, computer science, or equivalent
• Deep, hands-on familiarity with DeFi protocols and on-chain market structure through meaningful time working in these markets
• Experience working with on-chain data sources such as The Graph, Dune, or raw node data, and building research pipelines from them
• Strong Python programming
• Statistical rigour: a paranoid eye for lookahead bias, data leakage, and overfitting in on-chain research
• Self-directed and high-agency approach, comfortable owning research without hand-holding
• For junior candidates: strong research signal through projects, open-source contributions, or on-chain trading experiments
• For senior candidates: a live, attributable track record in DeFi or on-chain systematic trading
• Asia or US timezone strongly preferred for live market coverage

Nice to have

• Solidity familiarity or smart contract auditing experience

About AlgoQuant

AlgoQuant Asset Management is a multi-strategy digital asset manager founded in 2018, allocating capital across 25+ internal and external quantitative trading pods. The firm combines trading edge with strong governance and advanced technology, serving family offices and institutional investors globally from offices across UAE, USA, UK, EU, and Asia.