Paid Research Engagement — Systematic Trading

Location: Worldwide; fully remote

Salary: 350,000–500,000 RUB/month net

Company

Restadviser operates a systematic trading team managing $40M in assets under management across FX, futures, and options markets.

What you will do

• Generate, prioritize, and test systematic trading hypotheses from partially defined research problems.
• Design trading logic, including position management, hedging, exposure, and risk controls.
• Conduct end-to-end quantitative research from hypothesis generation through robust backtesting and validation.
• Account for Bid/Ask execution, transaction costs, slippage, and real-trading constraints.
• Analyze statistical, mathematical, or ML-based evidence and distinguish genuine effects from optimization artefacts.
• Produce reproducible final backtest code without dependence on third-party trading platforms.

Requirements

• Independent experience generating and testing trading hypotheses and researching strategies or signals.
• Strong understanding of backtesting, walk-forward analysis, overfitting, and look-ahead bias.
• Knowledge of position sizing, exposure and risk management, PnL, and drawdown analysis.
• Experience with statistics or time-series analysis and the ability to conduct research independently.
• Python, MATLAB, or a comparable programming language by prior agreement.
• Must be able to complete a self-contained paid research assignment of up to approximately 40 hours.

Nice to have

• Personally originated trading ideas or material contributions to live strategies.
• Strategies or signals that reached live trading with real capital.
• Experience with FX, futures, tick data, and Bid/Ask execution.
• Experience designing position-management or hedging systems.
• Experience investigating live degradation or divergence between live and backtested results.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid external research engagement; payment is provided regardless of whether the research result is positive or negative.
• Additional bonus for reaching predefined target criteria.
• Flexible, self-paced scope of up to approximately 40 hours alongside an existing primary commitment.
• Potential path to an ongoing research-team role with transparent PnL sharing.
• No crypto or HFT activity; proprietary details can remain covered by NDAs.

Hiring process

• Complete a paid, self-contained quantitative research assignment.
• Strong results and mutual interest may lead to an ongoing role in the research team.