Quantitative Trading Researcher: From Signals to Production

ALGOQUANT; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

AlgoQuant Asset Management in Dubai is hiring Quant Trade Researchers at junior and senior levels to design, test, and deploy systematic trading strategies across digital asset markets. You will generate ideas from first principles, validate them with rigorous statistics, and ship signals into live capital, in weeks, not quarters.

You will work directly with portfolio managers and engineers who move at your pace.

Qualifications

• PhD or top-decile graduate in maths, physics, CS or equivalent.
• Strong background in statistical learning, ML and DL; experience with models including boosting, transformers, RL.
• Strong programming; Python required, C++ or Rust a plus.
• Relentless curiosity and ownership of research end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Generate and test systematic trading hypotheses across spot, derivatives and on-chain markets.
• Build, validate and maintain live alpha signals and execution models.
• Run backtests rigorously, guarding against lookahead and data leakage.
• Analyse microstructure, order flow and cross-venue dynamics for better portfolio construction.
• Collaborate with engineers to move research from notebook to production.
• Monitor live strategy performance and iterate quickly on results.
• Contribute to shared research infrastructure, tools, datasets and code.

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Quantitative Research

Statistics

Education

PhD in maths/physics/CS

Bachelor's or higher in quantitative field

Job description

AlgoQuant Asset Management in Dubai is hiring Quant Trade Researchers at junior and senior levels to design, test, and deploy systematic trading strategies across digital asset markets. You will generate ideas from first principles, validate them with rigorous statistics, and ship signals into live capital, in weeks, not quarters.

You will work directly with portfolio managers and engineers who move at your pace.