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Job Title

Quantitative Researcher

Salary

$200k-$300k + Equity

Company Description

Injective Labs is a high-growth Web3 fintech incubated by Binance and backed by Jump Crypto, Pantera, and Mark Cuban, building the fastest interoperable L1 blockchain for finance.

Job Description

As a Quantitative Researcher at Injective Labs, you will join a high-impact three-person team in New York to build the strategies driving the DeFi economy. You will own the entire lifecycle of automated trading strategies, from market microstructure analysis to low-latency execution, ensuring market liquidity on the world’s first fully on-chain order book.

Location

New York, USA

Why this role is remarkable

• Join an elite three-person quant team where every member has end-to-end ownership, moving beyond theoretical research to ship production code with direct P&L visibility.
• Work at the absolute frontier of finance on the fastest-growing L1 blockchain, backed by industry titans like Binance, Jump Crypto, and Mark Cuban.
• Access a unique compensation structure featuring a performance-driven risk management bonus of up to $150k and INJ token equity in a scaling ecosystem.
  
  

What You Will Do

• Design and implement systematic market-making and arbitrage strategies end-to-end, utilizing statistical and machine-learning techniques to identify market inefficiencies.
• Build and maintain high-performance trading system components, including low-latency execution engines, signal-generation pipelines, and robust backtesting frameworks.
• Analyze complex on-chain data and market microstructure to optimize risk metrics, execution quality, and slippage for liquid and illiquid digital assets.
  
  

The ideal candidate

• Holds an M.S. or Ph.D. in a quantitative field with 3–5 years of experience in HFT or systematic trading at a top-tier financial institution.
• Demonstrates expert-level proficiency in Python for research alongside strong skills in performance-critical languages like C++, Rust, or Go.
• Possesses a deep understanding of probability, time-series modeling, and financial markets, with the ability to engineer low-latency systems that react to real-time data.
  
  

Who are Jack & Jill?

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And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.

How does this work?

• Jack's an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
• Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack's network.
• If it's a match and the company wants to meet you, they'll make the intro. In the meantime, if you'd like, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.
  
  

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