Quantitative Researcher / Machine Learning Researcher (Early Career)

A Singapore-based proprietary trading firm is hiring early-career researchers who could be the next person to build a live strategy within a year. Trading experience is not needed.

The firm

• Founded by a former trader from one of the best-known quant firms
• Over $200M of the firm’s own capital
• Nine people, with traders in Singapore, New York, London and Hong Kong
• Hiring about ten researchers this round

The role

You take a signal from research idea to live strategy yourself: research it, build it, test it, run it and monitor it. The work is in crypto and prediction markets, where there is still a lot to discover. You will work with machine learning and LLMs every day, and AI is part of how the whole team builds.

Why people join

• Direct access to the founder, who mentors you, instead of being one of hundreds at a big firm
• A graduate hired last year built a strategy that went live within the year
• Guaranteed compensation, tailored to you and built to match or beat return offers from the top firms, with up to $1M total for the strongest candidates
• Full relocation and visa support to Singapore, and a New York office is launching
• A fast process of three to four stages

Who this is for

• You have a return offer from a top quant trading firm, or a live late-stage process at one (Jane Street, HRT, Renaissance, XTX, Headlands, Citadel Securities, SIG, Optiver, Jump or IMC)
• You are graduating by September 2027 at the latest, or have already graduated
• You have an outstanding record at a leading university in maths, statistics, computer science, machine learning, physics, engineering or operations research. Olympiad medals, Kaggle wins and competitive programming all stand out
• You are excellent in Python and have built, trained and tested real machine learning models
• You use AI daily in your research and development
• You are happy to move to Singapore for at least a year
• You can explain your research clearly and simply, in excellent spoken and written English for client-facing work

Who this is not for

If you would rather join a large firm for the name, or you do not have a return offer or a live late-stage process at a top firm, this role is probably not the right fit.

How to apply

Answer the screening questions honestly. We call everyone who matches within 48 hours. The first call is confidential.