Quantitative Researcher: Market Manipulation & Market-Making Strategy (Perps)

Location: Remote, EU

Salary: USD $100k–$140k per year

Company

hirify.global has partnered with an early-stage digital asset trading venture building perpetual futures markets for long-tail tokens.

What you will do

• Model pump-and-dump, wash, and multi-wallet attacks on thin markets and identify the cheapest attack against each rule.
• Build risk and payout rules supported by provable bounds or simulations.
• Develop market-making strategies covering quoting, inventory, hedging, and execution timing when the firm's own trades move prices.
• Run Monte Carlo simulations and replay real on-chain incidents calibrated against historical data.
• Estimate whether price action or a wallet is likely to represent manipulation and price the cost of holding low-cap tokens at a given level over time.
• Define research and review tasks for AI agents, run multiple agents in parallel, and verify their output.

Requirements

• Experience in quantitative trading, market making, market microstructure, AMMs, perpetuals, or mechanism design.
• Strong probability, stochastic processes, and optimisation skills.
• Strong Python skills are essential.
• An attacker-first mindset and clear writing ability.
• Ability to work in an AI-native way by running multiple agents in parallel and verifying their output.

Nice to have

• Market maker, proprietary trading firm, DeFi, or MEV background.
• Ability to read Solidity.
• Experience with on-chain data.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely from the EU.
• Work directly with the founders and engineering team.
• Early-career candidates are welcome.
• Immediate availability is requested.

Hiring process

• Super-quick process.
• Share a resume by email or Telegram.