What Is a Quant Researcher / Quant Trader (Crypto)?

Quant researchers and traders at crypto market makers, prop shops and exchanges build and run the models and systems that price and trade digital assets — market-making, arbitrage across venues, derivatives, MEV strategies — usually on infrastructure they helped build. The work spans statistics, market microstructure and low-latency engineering, and the venue is 24/7.

Live demand right now

ChainJobs currently lists 47 live roles whose title matches this role, 2 of them posted in the last seven days, and 8 (17%) remote. By function they fall mostly into Trading & Quant 32 · Engineering 15. Every count comes from the employer's own careers page, re-verified daily.

What it pays

Among the 6 live matching roles with an employer-published USD annual band, the median midpoint is $212k, and the middle half of bands runs $200k–$225k. The top of the current market, from the employers' own listings:

• Quantitative Researcher at Polymarket — $250k–350k
• Quant Risk Analyst at Polymarket — $210k–240k
• Quantitative Developer - Risk at Ellipsis Labs — $180k–250k

Who is hiring for it

What the role is actually called

The most common titles on live listings that match this role: Quantitative Trader 4 · PhD Graduate Quantitative Researcher 3 · Quantitative Developer 3 · Quantitative Researcher 3 · Experienced Quantitative Researcher 3 · Quant Researcher 3. Titles vary by company; the job titles reference ranks every common title on the board.

Skills and the path in

A strong quantitative background (mathematics, statistics, physics, CS), Python and often C++ or Rust, and demonstrated judgement about markets. Interviews resemble finance more than startups: probability and microstructure questions, live coding, sometimes mental-math screens. Pay sits at the top of the market and the published base band understates it — variable is the point.

Open roles

• Quantitative Researcher at Polymarket — $250k–350k
• Quantitative Analyst Intern at Talos — $50–50/hr
• Quantitative Developer - Risk at Ellipsis Labs — $180k–250k
• Experienced Quantitative Researcher at Flow Traders — $200k–225k
• Quant Risk Analyst at Polymarket — $210k–240k
• Quantitative Researcher - Prediction Markets, Quant Trading at Crypto.com — $100k–150k

Full live set: the related jobs page, or the board with the search term above. For candidates, the how to get a crypto job guide covers the process; for employers, the hiring guides cover what this market costs and how to write the listing.

Role matching is by job title (word-boundary patterns), so counts are indicative of the role, not exhaustive. Figures computed from ChainJobs' live board on 2026-10-16; salary only from employer-published bands. How we source data →