Principal Quant: Trading Systems & Strategy Lead

Delphiventures; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 400,000 - 620,000; Full time

Job summary

Delphiventures is seeking exceptional senior ICs with strong product leadership and deep quantitative skills to own end-to-end outcomes across trading, market-making, and alpha generation. The role integrates global trading strategy with rigorous risk and execution management, demanding deep expertise in quantitative methods and systems design.

Ideal candidates will have a proven track record in trading venues or market infrastructure, plus hands-on quant experience.

Qualifications

• Prior experience building or operating trading venues, exchanges, or market infrastructure.
• A strong background in quant, with hands-on experience in quantitative trading, or market-making.
• Proven strength as a Product Manager, including owning outcomes end-to-end and driving cross-functional alignment.
• Deep understanding of margining, liquidation, leverage, and systemic risk mechanics.
• Strong operational mindset and comfort owning live P&L in production.
• Excellent communication skills for explaining complex quantitative reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Devise and own a highly consistent, coherent quantitative direction across trading, margining, liquidation, lending, and risk-related products.
• Ensure models and parameters fit together into a harmonious system for global efficiency.
• Own end-to-end correctness, backtesting, and live performance of quantitative strategies.
• Minimize adverse selection, manage slippage, and optimize execution quality under stress.
• Evaluate market behavior and strategy outcomes: analyze realized volatility vs. model predictions, diagnose performance drift, and drive model adjustments.
• Treat live trading results as validation of design; refine strategies based on real-world dynamics.

Skills

Trading experience

Quantitative trading

Product leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Specification writing

Python/C++

Market infrastructure

Job description

Delphiventures is seeking exceptional senior ICs with strong product leadership and deep quantitative skills to own end-to-end outcomes across trading, market-making, and alpha generation. The role integrates global trading strategy with rigorous risk and execution management, demanding deep expertise in quantitative methods and systems design.

Ideal candidates will have a proven track record in trading venues or market infrastructure, plus hands-on quant experience.