Crypto Quant Researcher
Citadel Securities — New York, NY
Posted: 2026-10-14
Job Description
• Research and statistically analyze cryptocurrency markets and large, unconventional data sets.
• Develop, refine, backtest, and implement automated cryptocurrency trading strategies, algorithms, models, and signals in live trading environments.
• Apply advanced mathematics, probability, statistics, time-series analysis, machine learning, pattern recognition, and NLP.
• Use Python, R, Matlab, and/or C++ in a data-driven research environment; crypto-market, exchange, or digital-asset infrastructure experience is preferred.
• Full-time role based in New York, NY (+4 other possible locations), with no work mode specified; base salary is $250,000–$350,000 plus discretionary incentive compensation.