Quantitative Researcher - Prediction Markets, Quant Trading

Company: Crypto.com

Location: London, United Kingdom (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-time

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 USD per year

About the Role

Crypto.com is building a new quantitative research team focused on pricing, market-making, and risk models for prediction markets. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who can operate end-to-end: data engineering, research, modeling, and close collaboration with traders, across sports and non-sports event markets and a range of contract types, including single-outcome markets, player props, and parlays.

Responsibilities

• Build data foundation and transform raw data into pricing inputs
• Research and develop quantitative pricing, market-making, and risk models across sports, non-sports, player props, parlays, and correlated markets
• Model cross-market dependencies, correlations, and portfolio effects, especially for combinatorial products such as parlays
• Partner closely with traders to improve pricing logic, market coverage, and trading performance
• Build frameworks for backtesting, simulation, and model validation
• Create tools to monitor model performance, calibration, P&L attribution, and live trading outcomes
• Help define the tooling, workflow, and research standards for a new team

Requirements

• Strong quantitative background in statistics, math, ML, economics, or a related field
• Experience building models in trading, sports, betting, prediction markets, or similar domains
• Strong Python/data skills and comfort owning data pipelines as well as modeling
• Ability to move quickly from raw data to research insight to production-ready mode
• High ownership, strong communication skills, and comfortable with fast-paced high growth environment