Quant Trader

Job description

Noise is building a culture platform; our goal is to surface verifiable trends via market dynamics to present a uniquely valuable view of the world at a time of peak uncertainty. We're a team of 10 headquartered in SoHo, New York, with part of the team based in Europe and Shanghai. We look for people with great taste who can ship code, design or convey user needs into delightful products. RESPONSIBILITIES - Develop and deploy trading strategies, with a focus on perpetual futures and other derivatives markets. - Use Codex, Claude, Cursor, and other AI-native tools to analyze data, prototype tools, automate workflows, and accelerate decision-making. - Apply the latest machine learning models to high- and mid-frequency trading problems, including arbitrage detection, liquidity provision, market making, signal generation, and risk monitoring. - Implement features on exchanges, contribute to trading infrastructure, and automate trading processes. - Propose and evaluate new exchange mechanics, including liquidity provision, vault design, market listing incentives, funding models, liquidation logic, and risk controls. - Monitor live markets, liquidity, positions, margin, liquidations, and abnormal trading behavior in real time. QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of experience in trading, quantitative research, market making, exchange operations, HFT, or a similarly rigorous environment. - Strong understanding of derivatives, especially perpetual futures, order books, margin, funding, liquidation, liquidity, and risk. - Strong programming fundamentals; comfortable writing scripts, querying databases, debugging systems, and building internal tools. - Fluent with AI coding and research tools such as Codex, Claude, Cursor, or similar agentic workflows. - High agency, operational intensity, and effective communication; comfortable working close to production systems and acting under uncertainty. Minimum full-time salary of $100,000-$150,000. Disclosure in accordance with New York City's Pay Transparency Law. Full Time employees at Noise Labs are also eligible for other compensation elements, including equity and benefits, dependent on the position type.