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Quantitative Developer – Agentic Research Lab

A technical lead role in a new quant development team building the research platform of a digital asset trading firm. You would set up automated multi-agent research workflows with strong guardrails.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Design and ship the multi-agent research loop for hypotheses, experiments and critique
Build CI/CD, model registry and experiment tracking for strategies and agents
Connect agents to live market data through Kafka/Redpanda and ClickHouse
Build live monitoring with automated alert triage
Set up controls against overfitting and evaluation suites for the agents

What they ask for

Required

10+ years of production software or ML systems
Multi-agent systems in production
Hands-on backtests, signal or risk models and their pitfalls
MLOps and CI/CD at platform level
Kafka/Redpanda and ClickHouse in production
Strong Python and SQL
Linux and Kubernetes
Experience with kill-switches and audit trails

Preferred

Rust, C++ or Go
Trading or market-making experience
Market microstructure
MCP server design or on-prem open-weight model serving
Delta Lake, Dagster, MLflow, GitOps or Terraform

Education: Not stated
Experience: 10+ years including several as a technical lead
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Rust
C++
Go
Markets: crypto

How to prepare

Build a small reproducible backtest pipeline with experiment tracking and fixed holdouts
Study multiple-testing corrections such as deflated Sharpe
Practise streaming data design with Kafka and ClickHouse
Prototype an LLM agent that proposes and tests a signal under strict evaluation

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Flowdesk and doesn’t handle applications.