Quant (DeFi)

Arrakis aims to disrupt the current market-making industry by providing the infrastructure to enable every project in the world that wants to launch a token to benefit from non-custodial, trust-less, and automated on-chain market-making strategies. We believe in a world where every organization, from a small startup to a large enterprise, will be tokenized and traded on-chain. For this world, Arrakis is building the tools to create the necessary liquidity to enable this token economy to rival and out-compete the traditional financial industry.

As a Quantitative Analyst at Arrakis, you will be researching emerging DeFi innovation, develop POCs for market making strategies and tooling, drive our liquidity provisioning strategies, develop quantitative analyses of on-chain trading activities and own client relationships to deliver tailored market-making services. You'll also work with our business development team on client onboarding, account management and enhance our quantitative algorithms with the core development team. Your contributions will be vital in establishing Arrakis as the leading decentralised market-making protocol.

What you’ll accomplish

• Working with the leading DeFi projects in web3 to strengthen their on-chain liquidity
• Keep ahead of the latest developments in quantitative finance, blockchain technology, and Web3 innovations to continuously refine and adapt our market making strategies (Uniswap v3 / v4 for example) to maintain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving web3 market-making industry
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with software engineers, data scientists and business development representatives to refine, enhance and develop the best market making service to our clients
• Own customer relationships and provide excellent client service by monitoring the ongoing market-making activities and respond to custom client requests
• Research & Innovation: Conduct research on emerging DeFi protocols / innovations, identify next-generation trends, and develop POCs for innovative market making strategies and tooling.
• On-Chain Analytics: Perform data aggregation and analysis to inform strategic decisions, create internal presentations, and generate creative solutions for enhanced liquidity provision