DeFi Quant Researcher (Web3)

Location: UAE, UK, USA, EU, or Asia. Asia or US timezones are strongly preferred for live DeFi market coverage.

Company

hirify.global Asset Management is a multi-strategy digital asset manager allocating capital across more than 25 internal and external quantitative trading pods for family offices and institutional investors.

What you will do

• Research and develop systematic trading strategies across AMMs, lending markets, perpetuals, yield vaults, and cross-chain venues.
• Build and validate alpha signals from liquidity flows, wallet behaviour, MEV dynamics, funding rates, and protocol incentives.
• Analyse smart contract mechanics and tokenomics to identify structural trading edges.
• Run backtests and simulations that account for gas costs, slippage, block timing, and on-chain data availability.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy strategies into live capital, monitor performance, and iterate on results.
• Contribute to shared research infrastructure, on-chain data pipelines, and research tooling.

Requirements

• Strong mathematical or scientific background in mathematics, physics, computer science, or an equivalent field.
• Deep hands-on familiarity with DeFi protocols and on-chain market structure.
• Experience working with on-chain data sources such as The Graph, Dune, or raw node data and building research pipelines.
• Strong Python programming skills and statistical rigour, including careful handling of lookahead bias, data leakage, and overfitting.
• Self-directed approach with the ability to own research end-to-end and collaborate with portfolio managers and engineers.
• Asia or US timezone availability is strongly preferred for live market coverage.

Nice to have

• Solidity familiarity or smart contract auditing experience.
• For junior candidates, research projects, open-source contributions, or on-chain trading experiments.
• For senior candidates, a live and attributable track record in DeFi or on-chain systematic trading.

Culture & Benefits

• Research-first role with end-to-end ownership of systematic strategy research.
• Direct collaboration with portfolio managers and engineers.
• Institutional digital asset platform with strong governance and advanced technology.
• Fast iteration on live strategy performance.