Working at QTES
Research That Ships
A live engine, a small senior team and a short path from a validated idea to a traded strategy. You will see your work in production, not in a slide deck.
Why QTES
Your work trades.
There is no distance between research and production. You take a question from first hypothesis through data, testing and validation to live implementation, and the market tells you whether you were right.
The frontier is open
Perpetuals, options, prediction markets and now the derivative markets forming around tokenised real-world assets: the methods for trading them are being written today. Some will be written by the people who join us.
The tools are serious.
Proprietary data going back years, all the compute and tooling the work requires, and our own data centre under construction.
AI is part of the craft
Frontier models and coding agents are in daily use across research, programming, data analysis and automation, alongside AI research infrastructure we have built ourselves. We use them to move faster. We do not outsource judgment to them.
Completed work counts for more than pedigree.
We hire builders. A strategy you built and tested, a trading record, a research repository or a system you shipped tells us more than a title or a degree. Exceptional independent experience matters as much to us as professional experience. We do not expect you to know everything on day one. We do expect you to know how to learn what the work requires.
- Rigour. You can take a broad research question to a defensible conclusion: a viable strategy, a revised direction or a well-supported decision to stop.
- Intellectual honesty. You reject an attractive strategy when the evidence does not support it, and you report negative results as clearly as positive ones.
- Commercial sense. You connect a statistical result to execution, liquidity, risk and scalability.
- AI fluency with skepticism. You use modern AI tools as a force multiplier, verify what they produce and know when a problem calls for first-principles reasoning.
- Ownership. You work with substantial autonomy and remain responsible for reaching the finish line.
Open Positions
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Benefits
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- Compensation. Competitive and benchmarked to leading Swiss finance and technology roles.
- Autonomy. No daily required meetings and no nine-to-five mandate. You manage your own schedule.
- Flexibility. We work from our offices in Zurich or Zug some days a week. Beyond that, you work when and where you are most productive.
- Balance. A reasonable working week of around 40 hours and ample paid time off. Then we stay out of your way.
- Ownership. Meaningful responsibility within a small, senior team from the first day.