Principal Quant

As a Principal Quant at GRVT, you own the quantitative strategy and product direction across trading, market-making, alpha generation, margining, liquidation, lending, and risk systems. You combine deep quantitative expertise with product leadership to design coherent, principled systems that work together harmoniously rather than as fragile local patches. You take full P&L responsibility for live trading and systemic risk behavior, and you serve as the primary quantitative expert for diagnosing performance, managing incidents, and refining models based on real-world market dynamics.

What you'll do

• Devise and own a highly consistent, coherent, and principled quantitative strategy across trading, market-making, and alpha generation, ensuring individual algorithms and execution parameters fit together into a harmonious system designed for global efficiency.
• Own the end-to-end correctness, backtesting, and live performance of quantitative strategies in production, with a bias towards statistical robustness and long-term scalability.
• Take ownership over minimizing adverse selection, managing slippage, and optimizing execution quality under stress scenarios.
• Act as the primary quantitative expert for evaluating market behavior and strategy outcomes: analyzing realized volatility versus model predictions, diagnosing strategy performance drift and optimizing alpha signals, and driving model adjustments based on market-making effectiveness and P&L.
• Devise and own a highly consistent, coherent, and principled quantitative direction across trading, margining, liquidation, lending, and risk-related products, ensuring individual models and mechanisms fit together into a harmonious system.
• Own the end-to-end correctness, feasibility, and desirability of quantitative products in production, preventing tricky edge cases, stress scenarios, and failure modes from hitting production.
• Act as the first line of defense for user, partner, and internal feedback related to quantitative behavior: answering questions about correctness and intent, diagnosing whether feedback reflects misunderstanding or real design flaws, and driving fixes when models do not behave as intended.
• Act as the technical lead for the research pipelines and infrastructure required to scale GRVT's trading capabilities.
• Write exceptionally optimized and clean code in Python and C++ for backtesting, research tools, and execution modules.
• Collaborate with engineering to bridge research and production: designing low-latency data pipelines for strategy inputs, optimizing the execution engine for market-making responsiveness, and building automated monitoring and attribution tools.
• Take direct responsibility for validating implementations of quantitative products, including designing and executing deep testing in non-production and production environments, reasoning about edge cases and failure modes, and remaining personally accountable for correctness.
• Take full P&L responsibility for live trading strategies and systemic risk behavior in production.
• Act as a key responder during incidents involving abnormal trading behavior, liquidation anomalies, margin and risk issues, or extreme market conditions.
• Be accountable for real-time risk monitoring during market volatility, including diagnosing root causes under pressure, advising on mitigations and parameter changes, and balancing user impact with platform safety.
• Lead or co-lead post-incident analysis for quantitative failures, ensuring root causes are correctly understood, durable fixes are made, and learnings feed back into product design and operational playbooks.
• Proactively identify latent systemic risks and work with engineering and risk teams to reduce them before they manifest as incidents.
• Design trading strategies with real-time operability in mind, including observability of key metrics and invariants, explainability during abnormal events, and safe failure modes with bounded blast radius.

What you bring

• Prior experience building or operating trading venues, exchanges, or market infrastructure.
• A strong background in quantitative trading or market-making with hands-on implementation experience.
• Proven strength as a product leader, including owning outcomes end-to-end, driving cross-functional alignment, and writing high-quality, precise specifications.
• Deep understanding of margining, liquidation, leverage, and systemic risk mechanics.
• A strong operational mindset and comfort owning live P&L in production.
• Excellent communication skills, especially when explaining complex quantitative reasoning clearly.
• Sound judgment under ambiguity and during high-stakes decision-making.

About GRVT

GRVT is a trading and infrastructure platform for digital assets. The company builds exchanges, market infrastructure, and quantitative trading systems at scale.