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Quantum Researcher
The Main Group is seeking a Quantum Researcher to develop quantitative strategies and AI models for the analysis and trading of digital assets such as Bitcoin and altcoins. The role involves creating trading models, conducting backtesting, and collaborating with the in-house blockchain team to optimize portfolio performance.
Tasks
- Development and refinement of fundamental strategies for applying inflation and anti-inflation theme signals to private, cash, and digital assets.
- Work with AI and NLP models to leverage alternative data provided by our public web crawling team and find new ways to predict on-chain data and transactions in order to better achieve outperformance.
- Developing new investment ideas to maximize alpha returns.
- Development and Modeling of Asset Allocation Models for Trend/Momentum.
- Definition and Development of Momentum, Volatility, and Beta Risk Factors for Portfolio Managers.
- Development of new real-time data solutions for AI modeling by investment managers.
- Developing and testing new models that improve upon traditional strategies such as trend-cost-timing, mean reversion, volatility, and portfolio optimization.
- Collaborate with our in-house blockchain development team to gain a better understanding of smart contract applications and to develop and deploy smart contracts that enhance investment performance.
- Brainstorming new ideas to advance technology, data, and insights.
- Work as a Digital Asset Strategy Assistant in the areas of strategies, models, backtesting, and proprietary quant-matic work, while building relationships with industry partners.
- Develop and maintain a model for predicting a broad range of investment strategies, including altcoins, stablecoins, altcoin exchange rates based on market sentiment, altcoin development team attitudes, social analytics, and derivatives market data.
- Assessing exchange liquidity and building relationships with stablecoin and altcoin exchanges to gain a thorough understanding of the market.
- Development of innovative trading models by modeling data on specific trading pairs/altcoin pairs across various exchanges.
- Integration with proprietary programming tools for monitoring smart contracts, trading, or other market conditions and signals.
- Assessment of exchanges with regard to their vulnerability to market volatility, order flow imbalances, liquidity, and other factors.
- Implementation of processes to support our modeling and monitoring systems.
- Conducting quality assurance, data engineering, AI, deep learning model backtesting, and monitoring.
Requirements
- Experience developing a trading bot using Node.js or Python.
- Knowledge of fundamental quantitative modeling and modeling using Python and C++.
- Fluency in English and an eye for detail.
- We welcome candidates who speak French, Spanish, or Arabic.
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