Quantitative Researcher

Midpointmarkets; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid medical insurance

Generous wellness benefits

Meals at work

Job summary

Midpointmarkets, a proprietary trading firm in San Francisco, is seeking a quantitative researcher to scale strategies and pioneer frameworks for crypto markets. The role involves analyzing datasets, refining trading systems, and ensuring model performance. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in financial markets, exceptional quantitative skills, and the ability to communicate effectively.

The firm offers fully paid medical and dental insurance, competitive benefits, and an inclusive workplace culture. Join a team dedicated to innovative trading solutions!

Qualifications

• Experience in financial markets and cryptocurrencies.
• Strong understanding of crypto market microstructure.
• Excellent quantitative and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to apply advanced statistics and analytical methods.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large datasets to research crypto signals.
• Build, back test, and refine trading strategies.
• Monitor model performance in live trading.
• Adapt existing strategies to new exchanges.
• Conduct research in niche market forces.

Skills

Financial markets experience

Cryptocurrency knowledge

Quantitative skills

Communication skills

Machine learning models

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 will scale 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.