A multi-billion-dollar China-based quant fund is launching a brand-new high-frequency proprietary trading platform, and hiring its founding lead. This is a ground-floor build: you own the book, run the P&L, and shape a new desk from day one, backed by an established firm's capital and infrastructure.
What you'll do:
- Own the full strategy lifecycle: market and instrument selection, research, validation, implementation, launch and post-launch review
- Research high-frequency equity, ETF and/or futures strategies at holding periods of 30 minutes or less, globally or focused on US or APAC
- Run your own book and P&L with real autonomy over what launches, gets redesigned, or gets stopped
- Build on a shared, firm-wide codebase, common data, signals, execution and research infrastructure that the whole team contributes to and draws from, rather than a walled-off pod
- Build a disciplined process around liquidity, leverage, costs, capacity, risk and shifting regimes, alongside quant devs, traders and infra colleagues
What you'll bring:
- Experience exclusively from tier-1 quantitative houses (top systematic hedge funds or elite proprietary trading firms); non-negotiable
- Genuine HFT depth, with hands-on experience researching, launching or running strategies at sub-30-minute horizons
- A clear track record of turning research into a live book
- Strong systematic experience in equities, futures or both
- Professional Mandarin (required)
The package:
- Founding ownership of a new HFT book and its P&L, with the mandate to build the team
- An exceptionally flat structure (quants, senior quants and leads, and the founder) and a collaborative, teamwork-first culture on a shared platform
- Compensation aligned to top US and global packages, with relocation support
- Location of your choice: Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai or the US
