Quantitative Researcher

Midpoint Markets; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental benefits for all

401k match & wellness benefits

Meals at work

Job summary

Midpoint Markets is seeking a quantitative researcher to scale our crypto strategies and pioneer new alpha-generating frameworks from the ground up. You will analyze large datasets, backtest trading ideas, and adapt models to evolving exchanges.

Join a team of engineers, researchers, and traders building end-to-end systems with high pace and impact. We value intellectual curiosity, rigorous analysis, and clear communication within a collaborative trading environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in financial markets, cryptocurrencies, crypto assets, and decentralized finance required.
• Deep understanding of crypto market microstructure and macrostructure.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large datasets to research crypto signals
• Build, back test, and refine trading and hedging strategies across exchanges
• Monitor and analyze model performance in live trading to identify improvements
• Adapt existing strategies to new exchanges and crypto products
• Conduct research on niche market forces to improve trading performance

Job description

About Us

We’re a proprietary trading firm building systematic quantitative strategies in crypto. Since 2018, we’ve been a consistent liquidity provider across major venues- helping markets become more efficient and mature, while staying comfortable operating at the frontier as market structure evolves.

Our core strategies span market-making, HFT, and statistical arbitrage. We’re a team of engineers, technologists, researchers, and traders who build end-to-end systems: robust data and research pipelines to uncover edges, and low-latency infrastructure and execution software to capture them in production. We trade at scale (~$1B in daily notional volume) in a dynamic, fast-paced, and highly competitive environment.

We’re looking for the brightest, most driven people to join us- collaborative problem-solvers who want ownership, impact, and the chance to work with a team that brings 100+ years of collective quantitative finance experience.

About the position

As a quantitative researcher, you willscale our strategies to new markets and pioneer new alpha-generating frameworks from the ground up.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Analyze large datasets to research crypto signals
• Build, back test, and refine trading and hedging strategies across exchanges
• Monitor and analyze model performance in live trading to come up with improvement ideas
• Adapt existing strategies to new exchanges and crypto products
• Conduct research in niche market forces to improve our trading performance

What We Look For

We are seeking mission-driven problem solvers who possess intellectual curiosity and analytical rigor required to navigate complex, real-time problems in high-stakes trading environments.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Significant experience required in financial markets, cryptocurrencies, crypto assets, and decentralized finance
• Deep understanding of varying crypto market microstructure and macrostructure
• Exceptional quantitative and problem-solving skills
• Strong team player with excellent communication skills
• Ability to use advanced statistics, machine learning models to solve practical problems
• Prior experience working in a data-driven role

Benefits

• Fully paid medical and dental insurance for all employees and dependents

• Competitive 401k match and generous wellness benefits.

• Meals at work and other perks.

Location

We prefer in-person in San Francisco.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.