Quant Researcher

Quant Researcher - Founding Team

Mumbai Based

Capitum Street is building a research edge in financial markets and is hiring a Quant Researcher to join as a founding team member. The role involves uncovering alpha, turning market data into testable hypotheses, and shaping trading strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and develop high-quality, alpha-generating trading strategies and predictive models across equities, derivatives, forex, and crypto.
• Analyze large-scale market data to find trading opportunities, evaluate strategies on risk, drawdown, capacity, and transaction costs, and validate models with rigorous out-of-sample testing.
• Leverage AI & Machine Learning (ML) tools to accelerate research and model development.
• Collaborate with the Quant Developer to move validated strategies into production.
• Continuously improve models and identify new areas of research.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proficiency in Python and/or C++.
• Strong background in statistics, probability, or a related quantitative field.
• Interest in financial markets and independent, self-driven research.
• Time-series analysis or backtesting experience is a plus.

Mumbai-based candidates preferred (remote role).