Lead Crypto Quantitative Researcher

BlockTech; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CBD Singapore office

Base salary + bonus

Relocation package

In-house training budget

Laptop & home office budget

Meals provided daily

Gym reimbursement

Team events

Relocation for internationals

Job summary

BlockTech, a Singapore-based algorithmic trading firm, seeks a senior Quantitative Researcher to own end-to-end research from hypothesis to live deployment on the trading floor.

You will work with researchers, traders, and engineers, shaping pricing and trading, mentoring others, and setting standards for rigor.

Candidates should have 4+ years hands-on research in ML, strong Python, and a track record of production models in crypto or related markets.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on quantitative research and/or applied ML with production trading experience.
• Strong academic foundation in a quantitative discipline.

Responsibilities

• Own price-prediction, signal, execution, and anomaly-detection models end-to-end from idea to live PnL.
• Shape research, backtesting, and trading infrastructure with engineers for rapid production.
• Own production models: monitor performance, diagnose decay, and iterate.
• Set research direction with traders and justify bets.
• Mentor colleagues, review work, and set rigour standards.

Skills

Python

Quant research

ML

Backtesting

Model deployment

Mentoring

Communication

Production-grade code

Education

Mathematics/Statistics/CS/Physics degree

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

NumPy

Pandas

Git

Job description

BlockTech, a Singapore-based algorithmic trading firm, seeks a senior Quantitative Researcher to own end-to-end research from hypothesis to live deployment on the trading floor.

You will work with researchers, traders, and engineers, shaping pricing and trading, mentoring others, and setting standards for rigor.

Candidates should have 4+ years hands-on research in ML, strong Python, and a track record of production models in crypto or related markets.