Quant / Technical Partner
Systematic Multi-Strategy Trading Firm | Partner-Level Role
Overview
A newly launching systematic trading firm is seeking a Quant / Technical Partner to help shape the quantitative and technical direction of the business.
The firm is being built by an experienced trading founder who previously operated a systematic crypto hedge fund between 2017 and 2022, delivering approximately 3.2x returns over ~2.5 years, managing ~$20M AUM and trading $500M–$1B+ annual volume across a blend of systematic and discretionary strategies.
The new vehicle is being launched with a broader multi-asset mandate and a long-term strategic focus on prediction markets, which the team believes represent an emerging asset class with significant structural inefficiencies.
The Opportunity
The goal is to build a systematic, market-neutral multi-strategy trading platform designed to generate consistent, risk-managed returns across market cycles.
Key targets include:
- ~5% monthly returns (~50% annualised) as a baseline
- High Sortino ratios
- Strict drawdown discipline
- Strategies that scale without alpha decay
The portfolio will be diversified across areas including:
- Crypto
- Equities
- Futures
- Commodities
Over time the firm intends to build a meaningful presence in prediction markets, an area where institutional participation is beginning to increase.
Capital & Launch Timeline
The firm is currently in the early build phase.
- $2M–$4M initial proprietary capital expected to be deployed within the next ~2 months
- Fund launch targeted within ~3–4 months
- Capital will scale alongside validated alpha capacity
Core infrastructure development and team expansion are underway.
The Role
The firm is looking to hire a Quant / Technical Partner who will help co-own the systematic trading direction and technical architecture of the platform.
This role is intentionally hybrid — sitting between:
- portfolio manager
- quantitative researcher
- technical architect
It is not purely a research role and not purely an engineering role.
The hire will play a key role in determining both what strategies are traded and how the systems supporting those strategies are built.
Key Responsibilities
Deploy Systematic Alpha
The primary priority is to bring deployable automated trading strategies into the firm.
The ideal candidate will already operate:
- Live systematic strategies
- Production-ready automated systems
- Strategies capable of scaling with additional capital
The firm is largely asset-class agnostic — alpha could come from crypto, equities, futures, or other markets.
Evaluation will focus primarily on:
- performance
- drawdown management
- scalability
Over time the role would also include developing additional internal systematic strategies.
External Alpha Evaluation
The firm will operate a pod-style model, partnering with external traders and strategy teams.
This role will act as the technical counterparty responsible for evaluating external alpha opportunities before capital is deployed.
Responsibilities include assessing:
- trading methodology
- technical architecture
- execution feasibility
- scalability
- portfolio fit
This may involve reviewing strategy documentation, codebases where available, and stress-testing performance assumptions.
Prediction Market Strategy Development (Long Term)
Prediction markets are a long-term strategic focus for the firm.
The role will involve helping identify systematic opportunities such as:
- cross-platform arbitrage
- liquidity provision
- probability mispricing
- event-driven trading dynamics
These markets remain structurally inefficient and are attracting increasing interest from systematic trading firms.
Technical Infrastructure & Architecture
The hire will also influence the technical direction of the trading platform, including:
- evaluating trading infrastructure
- defining build vs buy decisions
- establishing standards for testing, monitoring and deployment
- helping hire and evaluate engineering talent
- ensuring trading systems remain robust under real market conditions
This role will contribute to long-term system architecture decisions, not just individual strategies.
Compensation
Compensation is structured to strongly align incentives with performance and long-term firm growth.
For a senior partner-level hire the structure typically includes:
- Base salary: approximately $100K–$200K
- Carry participation: approximately 10–20% of fund profits
Salary is generally tied to candidates who can demonstrate ~5% monthly returns from scalable systematic strategies.
For individuals joining primarily to run independent alpha pods, the model typically shifts toward performance participation:
- Profit share up to ~40% of strategy PnL
Compensation structures remain flexible for exceptional candidates with strong deployable alpha.
Ideal Background
The firm is particularly interested in individuals who:
- operate live automated trading strategies
- have deployable systematic alpha
- have experience managing systematic capital
- can technically evaluate external trading strategies
- understand trading infrastructure and system architecture
- are comfortable operating in early-stage environments
Interest in prediction markets would be valuable but is not required
