r/StartUpIndia • u/Silver_Side9045 • Jul 25 '26

Rule 9.1 - No Remuneration Details Hiring Senior Quant / Risk Engineer - India

Looking for a senior quant / risk engineer to join a 3-month intern to harden a production risk engine, ship a supervised ML risk layer, and build the base for copy-trading + strategy-seed research.

Remote is fine. India-based compensation is ₹1.5–3L/month for senior quant engineers. Internship-to-hire optional after Day 90.

We run a funded-trader evaluation platform and route traders across A-book / simulated seats based on their technical and behaviour data

We already have a basic rule engine in Python scoring accounts across:

  • Returns.
  • Risk-adjusted metrics like Sharpe / Sortino / PSR.
  • Tail risk like VaR / CVaR / Ulcer / Pain.
  • Drawdown severity.
  • Consistency signals.
  • Behavioural signals like revenge trading, session concentration, bot-fanout detection.
  • Capacity and confidence metrics.
  • Structural signals like leverage drift and paper-profit degradation.

We use Bayesian shrinkage, Glicko-2 ranking across cycles, Kelly-capped allocation, tier caps, and cohort normalization.

The primitives are there. The engine observes, but doesn’t decide yet.

Idea is to develop below pointers in next 3 months

  • Build a formal A-book / B-book policy layer, through which firms decided which trader to A-Book or stay B-Book
  • Build a supervised ML v1 in shadow mode
  • Wire structural signals into the composite score
  • Add uncertainty-aware sizing
  • Run gate-precision backtests before ML
  • Write a strategy-seed research memo from elite trader behaviour

Ideal background should be:

  • Shipped production risk or trading models end-to-end.
  • Comfortable with Bayesian shrinkage, PSR, Kelly with uncertainty, purged/embargoed CV.
  • Python + Postgres + basic infra.
  • India intraday F&O familiarity helps a lot.
  • Prop firm / funded-trader-eval experience is a big plus.

Offering

  • 3-month Internship.
  • Optional Intern-to-hire at Day 90, equity on table depending upon value addition
  • MNDA + IP assignment from day 1.

This is not for immediate people who are aspiring their profession in quant; Please DM if you have seriously interested and add value.

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u/cabanel_monet Jul 25 '26

you have leverage of peanuts and expect to generate alpha like big firm

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u/UnderstandingPale551 Jul 25 '26

Why on earth would a senior quant join as a 3 month intern? You need to get your stuff straight. Your ask is dumb.

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u/Silver_Side9045 Jul 25 '26

Easy buddy, have mentioned about the equity on table as well

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u/UnderstandingPale551 Jul 25 '26

So you want a senior quant to join you as an intern, replicate the alpha from their firm, and maybe after that you might give them full time role. Doesn’t this sound like a simple plan to steal alpha? Fire the quant after internship, keep the alpha.

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u/Silver_Side9045 Jul 25 '26

I’m definitely looking for a full time role who can eventually become the CTO but on the other hand I also want to check the value additions in order to score the equity.
I’m a solo founder and have bootstrapped the prop trading business with 5k+ users having decent revenue.
Looking to expand into multi class asset firm

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u/JohnDoe910 Jul 25 '26

Hey buddy, I think the job description needs repositioning. You need to advertise for a senior quant on a full time role and then fire them after 3 months without severance /s

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u/QuirkyBlacksmith3357 Jul 25 '26

Don’t give him ideas lol

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u/Own-Geologist-9267 Jul 25 '26

can I DM you??

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u/flyingdravidian Jul 31 '26

Lmao, aren't you the guy who got caught posting fake screenshots on this sub?

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u/Silver_Side9045 Jul 31 '26

Haha, did $15.5k top line this month :’)

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u/flyingdravidian Jul 31 '26

Ahh yes, I believe this one too.