Lead Quant Risk Engineer — Derivatives & Stress Testing

Unchain Data; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Unlimited PTO

Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage

401k match

Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big a

Job summary

Polymarket is building a regulated US exchange and seeks a Quant Risk Manager to anchor the risk function from the ground up. You will design models, frameworks, and systems for margin, stress testing, and default risk in a fast-moving market.

You will work with engineers, product leads, and compliance to translate risk thinking into infrastructure, own exposure measurement, and ensure regulatory readiness as the business launches perpetuals and commodity derivatives.

Qualifications

• Hands-on ownership of derivatives or futures risk models.
• Ability to design and implement risk systems from scratch.
• Experience with live trading risk and margin frameworks.
• Fluent in Python with production-grade coding practices.
• Familiarity with exchange mechanics and regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Build quantitative risk models for perpetuals and commodity derivatives.
• Design and maintain the exchange's stress testing framework.
• Develop default risk models for the guarantee fund sizing.
• Partner with engineers to build a real-time risk monitoring platform.
• Translate risk outputs into actionable exchange policy (margins, liquidation).
• Own CFTC-related risk reporting and capital obligations with compliance.

Skills

Derivatives risk management

Python programming

Production-grade coding

Regulatory knowledge (CFTC)

AI tooling in development

Tools

Python

Job description

Polymarket is building a regulated US exchange and seeks a Quant Risk Manager to anchor the risk function from the ground up. You will design models, frameworks, and systems for margin, stress testing, and default risk in a fast-moving market.

You will work with engineers, product leads, and compliance to translate risk thinking into infrastructure, own exposure measurement, and ensure regulatory readiness as the business launches perpetuals and commodity derivatives.