Quantitative Intern — Syndr

We’re now on the lookout for a Quantitative Intern to join our lean and brilliant team to help build the next generation of decentralized financial infrastructure.

What You’ll Work On

• Assist in developing, testing, and optimizing trading strategies using real-time and historical market data

• Conduct data analysis, build models, and support research for derivatives pricing, risk, and performance

• Collaborate with engineering and research teams to validate and backtest quant models

• Research and interpret complex financial instruments, especially in crypto options, futures, and perpetuals

• Help us analyze and interpret user behavior, market structure, and liquidity data

• Stay up to date with crypto markets, DeFi trends, and algorithmic trading techniques

What We’re Looking For

• Strong analytical and quantitative background – ideally pursuing or holding a degree in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Finance, or similar

• Knowledge of financial derivatives, with a strong interest in crypto and trading

• Willingness to learn, iterate, and contribute in a fast-paced startup environment

• Candidates from top IITs will be preferred

Why Syndr?

• Work on a cutting-edge product at the forefront of DeFi innovation

• Collaborate with a passionate, talented, and driven team

• Opportunity to gain hands-on experience in quantitative research and crypto trading

• Flexible working environment with learning opportunities from experienced founders

• Real impact on a product used by global crypto traders

  🤝  Values & How we work?

The entire crypto space doesn’t just move fast but is constantly accelerating. It’s hard building a DeFi product — it’s 24/7, 365 days a year, markets do not close, the ground beneath you can shift, assumptions can and do fail & risk of burning out is real.

• We take our product + brand very seriously.

  • If we see even a small flaw in our product, we always ask ourselves – Why isn’t this perfect?

  • All members have perpetual autonomy to fix anything broken that we notice, and we do not wait for someone else to tell us what to do.

• Take extreme ownership of everything we do

  • If the team fails, everyone fails, so prioritise and execute.

  • We think long-term, set big goals, and communicate with clear directions and goals to achieve them. Everyone must understand not just what they’re doing but also why they are doing it.

  • No Egos, lead by example, and mutual accountability.

• Strive for clear and simple communication – this is easier said than done, but communicating the “why” of an issue is equally important as the “what.”

• All meetings have an agenda, with outcomes clearly defined as tasks and call-to-actions.

• Prioritise all tasks by what is more important for our users without compromising on any of the above goals.

What we offer

• Unique opportunity to work with a small, focused & ambitious team on very interesting projects and get the level of responsibility and ownership that would be unlikely at any other project.

• Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet collaborative and entrepreneurial

• Sense of a Shared Mission

• Work on the latest technology, equipment, and web3 stack with dedicated budgets

• Flexible working hours

• Annual team retreat

• Competitive compensation

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