Quant Researcher

About the role

Kalshi is the first CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange and the fastest-growing company in finance. We recently became the first US exchange to offer perpetuals in a regulated manner and launched KPOW, the first political index of its kind. We're hiring a Quant Researcher who will help build what comes next: new indices, new models, and quant problems across the exchange as the business scales.

Responsibilities

• Build and own quantitative models that go into production, not into decks
• Develop new indices and research problems across the exchange
• Work directly with engineering, product, and trading on problems that don't have established solutions
• Ramp fast on prediction markets and find the edges that others haven't seen yet

Requirements

• Very sharp, independent, and practical: you figure things out without needing a roadmap
• Strong math, stats, and quant finance background
• Comfortable with derivatives; familiarity with risk and VaR preferred
• Hands-on with Python, statistics, and ML models

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative degree from a leading university
• 2+ years of experience

Skills

• Python, statistics, ML models
• Derivatives
• Risk and VaR (preferred)

Benefits

Equity and benefits

Pay

$150,000 to $250,000 annually