Crypto / DeFi / Microstructure Quant

Full-time hybrid role at a crypto exchange in UAE. Requires top technical university background, 2-3 Quant/ML projects, strong Python, statistics, and microstructure knowledge.

Quant/ML projects with personal responsibility for the entire chain from problem statement to solution. Understand crypto market, DeFi/DEX is a plus, CEX/microstructure experience compensates. Responsibilities include structuring unclear tasks, designing informative experiments, and making evidence-based decisions.

Top technical university (MSU, MIPT, Bauman, HSE or similar); 2-3 verified Quant/ML projects with personal responsibility; excellent Python and engineering skills; strong statistics, probability, optimization, time series, leakage, selection bias, uncertainty, honest out-of-sample validation; understanding of market microstructure and execution (order book/flow, liquidity, latency, fees, slippage, adverse selection, impact, sizing, hedging); practical ML/DL for sequential financial data; ability to distinguish signal from metric optimization; independence and initiative; crypto market understanding; DeFi/DEX is a plus. Candidates must submit resume with their role in each of 2-3 projects and a description of two projects (one successful, one failed) covering what was built, measured, and decisions made.