Quantitative Researcher

Gurugram, India | On-site | Full-time

*Please note:*
*This role is open only to candidates with hands-on Quant Research experience at a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, or HFT/market-making desk. Applications without demonstrable quant trading experience will not be considered. If that's not your background, please refrain from applying.*

Whistler Trading is looking for a Quantitative Researcher to develop trading signals and systematic strategies across our trading business. If you like working with large datasets, running honest backtests, and building models that drive real trading performance, this could be a great fit.

You'll research and develop alpha across a range of instruments and markets — spanning traditional financial venues and crypto — applying rigorous statistical methods to understand and predict market behaviour. Your work will feed directly into live strategies, and you'll have a transparent path to owning strategies as you grow.

Whistler has strong advantages in market access,



technology and execution across traditional and crypto markets, and you'll work closely with senior researchers and traders to translate research into production.

Your Core Responsibilities
- Research and develop alpha signals across asset classes and instruments (e.g., equities, futures, options and crypto)
- Contribute to the design, testing and improvement of systematic trading strategies
- Conduct rigorous backtests on clean, point-in-time historical and live data
- Build a deep understanding of market structure, pricing dynamics and structural inefficiencies
- Collaborate with traders to take research ideas into deployable strategies
- Continuously refine models and explore new areas of research

Your Skills and Experience
- 2–4 years of quantitative research experience, with demonstrated ability in alpha generation and/or strategy research
- Strong foundation in probability, statistics and time-series analysis
- Strong programming skills (

📌 Quantitative Researcher (Gurugram)
🏢 Whistler Trading
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