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.
Quantitative Researcher at Injective Labs
Join the elite three-person quant team at Injective Labs to build the strategies powering the world’s first fully on-chain order book. Backed by Binance, Jump Crypto, and Mark Cuban, this role offers end-to-end ownership of automated trading systems—from microstructure research to low-latency execution—with up to $300k total compensation plus token equity. It is a unique opportunity for quants with HFT experience to move beyond theoretical research and ship production code directly impacting the P&L of one of the fastest-growing L1 blockchains in New York.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Injective Labs is a research and development company focused on creating unmatched Web3 infrastructure and finance solutions. As one of the core contributors to Injective, it aims to provide innovative solutions for the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, including products like Helix, a decentralized order-book crypto exchange, and Mito, a DeFi protocol for passive yield generation and token launchpad. It operates validator nodes for various Web3 projects and is dedicated to fostering a free and decentralized financial landscape.[1][5][12]
What you'll do
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.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- 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.
Why this role
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.
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