Principal Quant
Malaysia
Posted on Sep 3, 2026
What You’ll Do
We’re looking for exceptional senior ICs who combine strong product leadership with deep quantitative skill.
You should demonstrate:
- Quantitative Strategies Design and Implementation
- Devise and own a highly consistent, coherent, and principled quantitative strategy across trading, market-making, and alpha generation.
- Ensure that individual trading algorithms, market-making models, and execution parameters fit together into a harmonious system designed for global efficiency.
- Own the end-to-end correctness, backtesting, and live performance of quantitative strategies in production.
- Take ownership over minimizing adverse selection, managing slippage, and optimizing execution quality under stress scenarios.
- Act as the primary quantitative expert for evaluating market behavior and strategy outcomes:
- analyzing realized volatility versus model predictions
- diagnosing strategy performance drift and optimizing alpha signals
- driving model adjustments based on market-making effectiveness and P&L
- Treat live trading results as the ultimate validation of design, continuously refining strategies based on real-world market dynamics. Biasing towards statistical robustness and long-term scalability.
- Quantitative Product Ownership
- Devise and own a highly consistent, coherent, and principled quantitative direction across trading, margining, liquidation, lending, and risk-related products.
- Ensure that individual models, parameters, and mechanisms fit together into a harmonious system, rather than a collection of locally-correct but globally-fragile designs.
- Own the end-to-end correctness, feasibility, and desirability of quantitative products in production.
- Take ownership over preventing tricky edge cases, stress scenarios, and failure modes from hitting production.
- Act as the first line of defense for user, partner, and internal feedback related to quantitative behavior:
- answering questions about correctness and intent
- diagnosing whether feedback reflects misunderstanding, edge cases, or real design flaws
- driving fixes or adjustments when models do not behave as intended
- Treat post-launch behavior as a continuation of product design, continuously refining models based on observed outcomes and feedback. Biasing strongly towards system consistency during revisions, and avoiding repeated fragile patches.
- Cross-Functional Leadership & Execution
- Act as the technical lead for the research pipelines and infrastructure required to scale GRVT’s trading capabilities.
- Write exceptionally optimized and clean code (Python/C++) for backtesting, research tools, and execution modules.
- Collaborate with engineering to bridge the gap between research and high-performance production systems:
- designing low-latency data pipelines for strategy inputs
- optimizing the execution engine for market-making responsiveness
- building automated monitoring and attribution tools
- Take direct responsibility for validating implementations of quantitative products:
- design and execute deep testing in non-production and production environments
- reason about edge cases, stress scenarios, and failure modes that others are unlikely to catch
- use QA support where helpful, but remain personally accountable for correctness
- Own the outcome when quantitative products are mis-implemented, even if gaps were not caught by QA, recognizing that the domain complexity requires quant-level validation.
- Take full P&L responsibility for live trading strategies and systemic risk behavior in production.
- Act as a key responder during incidents involving:
- abnormal trading behavior
- liquidation anomalies
- margin, risk, or insurance fund issues
- extreme market conditions or tail events
- Be accountable for real-time risk monitoring during market volatility, including:
- diagnosing root causes under pressure
- advising on mitigations, parameter changes, or temporary safeguards
- balancing user impact, platform safety, and long-term risk
- Lead or co-lead post-incident analysis for quantitative failures, ensuring:
- root causes are correctly understood (model vs implementation vs assumption)
- durable fixes are made to models, parameters, or system design
- learnings are fed back into product design and operational playbooks
- Proactively identify latent systemic risks and work with engineering and risk teams to reduce them before they manifest as incidents.
- Design trading strategies with real-time operability in mind, including:
- observability of key metrics and invariants
- explainability of system behavior during abnormal events
- safe failure modes and bounded blast radius
We’re looking for exceptional senior ICs who combine strong product leadership with deep quantitative skill.
You should demonstrate:
- Prior experience building or operating trading venues, exchanges, or market infrastructure.
- A strong background in quant, with hands-on experience in quantitative trading, or market-making
- Proven strength as a Product Manager, including:
- owning outcomes end-to-end
- driving cross-functional alignment
- writing high-quality, precise specifications
- Deep understanding of margining, liquidation, leverage, and systemic risk mechanics.
- Strong operational mindset and comfort owning live P&L in production.
- Excellent communication skills, especially when explaining complex quantitative reasoning clearly.
- Sound judgment under ambiguity and high-stakes decision-making.