Quantitative Strategist

Your mission

Join Paradigm as we redefine the financial landscape through decentralized finance. We are on the lookout for an experienced Quantitative Strategist to be a key player in our Quantitative Research team. In this role, you’ll focus on building and refining trading and risk infrastructures for a pioneering decentralized clearing and settlement protocol.

What You’ll Do

• Innovative Development: Build a prototype library for decentralized derivatives and spot clearing, including a sophisticated risk engine to simulate diverse market environments.
• Risk Assessment: Implement unit and integration tests to validate protocols and assess various risks under stressed scenarios.
• Market Analysis: Monitor and manage market liquidity risk, insolvency risk, and other protocol-specific risks.
• Strategic Design: Design methodologies for constructing market options volatility surfaces essential for accurate pricing.
• Collaboration: Communicate effectively within and across teams to align project requirements and visions.

What You Bring

• Mathematical Expertise: Strong foundation in mathematics, especially in probability theory, statistics, and numerical methods.
• Financial Acumen: Good understanding of financial derivatives, market microstructure, and options pricing models.
• DeFi Experience: Strong knowledge and/or personal use of DeFi applications is a requirement..
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in quantitative programming languages such as Python, C++, or Go, with a strong focus on back-testing, simulation, and statistical analysis.
• Crypto Enthusiasm: Keen interest in crypto and DeFi, with a meticulous approach to complex problem solving.
• Independent Thinking: Ability to think independently and articulate complex ideas clearly and accurately.
• Machine Learning: Exposure to machine learning techniques and their application to financial data would be beneficial.