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Design, test, and deploy systematic trading strategies across digital asset markets. Generate and validate hypotheses, run rigorous backtests, build and maintain live alpha signals and execution models, analyze microstructure and order flow, collaborate with engineers to move research to production, and monitor and iterate on live strategy performance.

Develop and deploy options pricing and execution models for digital asset derivatives. Research volatility dynamics and microstructure, build backtests handling path dependency and costs, design hedging and delta management, collaborate with engineers to move strategies into live infrastructure, and monitor real-time Greeks and P&L to iterate on models.

Founding, hands-on risk hire to build and run day-to-day risk oversight across multi-strategy trading pods and external managers. Monitor exposures, stress-test portfolios, enforce limits, assess counterparties and new strategy onboarding, and produce concise risk reporting for leadership and investors. Path to CRO as the firm scales.

Lead end-to-end research applying advanced ML/DL (transformers, GNNs, RL, ensembles) to generate alpha across digital asset markets, build production-grade pipelines, prevent leakage/overfitting, analyze microstructure and on-chain data, and mentor junior researchers.