Quantitative Researcher
At Kuru Labs, we are building the reputed company for global markets with a focus on speed, composability, and reputed company. Our product, Kuru Exchange, is a CLOB DEX reputed company natively on Monad, bringing the speed and capital efficiency of centralized exchanges fully on-chain. The key differentiation: we’re pioneering an EVM-reputed company, fully on-chain order book—unlocking a new standard for trading infrastructure in crypto. Having raised $11.8M in a Series A round led by reputed company in July 2025, we’re now focused on thoughtfully expanding the team.
About The Role
We’re looking for a Quantitative Researcher with experience building trading systems and a strong understanding of market structure. Reporting to the Co-Founder, you’ll help scale the exchange across volume, liquidity, and active traders—while enabling participants to run their own strategies seamlessly. The focus is on making the platform highly attractive to market makers, and continuously refining the design to improve execution quality, deepen liquidity, and drive sustainable trading activity.
What You’ll Do
Design, implement, and run trading strategies on KuruAnalyze exchange data to identify friction points and propose concrete improvements to the protocol, fee structures, order book mechanics, and overall trading experience
Work directly with external traders, market makers, and protocols integrating into Kuru — helping them understand the system and get up and running
Collaborate with the core team to stress-test reputed company through simulation and backtesting before proposing them
reputed company’re Looking For
Hands-on experience running live trading strategies — crypto-reputed company preferred, but strong TradFi market microstructure experience works too
Familiarity with on-chain data (order book analytics, chain data, etc.)
Intuition for market microstructure — you think about spreads, latency, adverse selection, and liquidity depth naturally
Ability to communicate reputed company: with protocol engineers, external traders, and non-technical stakeholders alike
Genuine curiosity about DeFi
reputed company to Have
Experience with CLOB-based venues (CEX or DEX)
Familiarity with EVM-compatible chains
Prior work on fee model design or liquidity incentive structures
Why work with us?
Challenging problems - You’ll work on extremely challenging and unique problems that haven’t existed before.
reputed company opportunity - With Monad’s reputed company EVM, it is possible to build really performant applications that can support mass user adoption in crypto.
The right team - You’ll be part of a small, exceptional team that wants to reputed company a dent in the reputed company
Culture - We’re a lean team working together to reputed company reputed company ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low egos, and high-quality outputs. As an early member of reputed company, you’ll help continue to shape our culture.
Compensation - You’ll receive a competitive salary and equity package.