The interesting problems are the ones that don't round off.

A systematic trading firm. We hire mathematicians, physicists, and engineers to find structure in markets — and trade on it.

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We trade what we can prove.

Spiking Green is a systematic trading firm. We build and run quantitative strategies across liquid global markets — equities, futures, rates, and FX. Every strategy we run was designed here, tested here, and is owned by the people who built it.

We are not a large organization. We keep teams small by design — the research loop stays short, the feedback is real, and the gap between a question and a live trade is weeks, not years.

The people who do this work well tend to share a particular quality: they are more interested in being right than in sounding right. If that describes you, read on.

Based in Kuala Lumpur · remote-friendly for senior hires · relocation supported

How we work

Own it end to end

You form the hypothesis, design the test, run it against real data, and see it into production. Nobody hands you a problem shaped like a puzzle box.

Short feedback loops

Markets are an adversary. They tell you quickly when you're wrong. We build our process to surface those answers fast — not to protect us from them.

Small teams

A team of two or three researchers is the unit. No coordination overhead, no committee approvals. The work is the meeting.

Shared upside

Compensation is significant and tied directly to the strategies you build. The firm's interests and yours are the same instrument.

Open roles

Kuala Lumpur · Updated June 2026
Research
Quantitative Researcher Kuala Lumpur · Full-time +

You'll form and test hypotheses about market structure, build systematic strategies from the survivors, and run them in live markets. We care how you think — about data, about uncertainty, about when to stop. PhD in mathematics, physics, statistics, or a related field, or equivalent depth of self-directed study.

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Senior Quantitative Researcher Kuala Lumpur · Full-time +

You have experience taking a signal from idea to live capital. You're comfortable with the full cycle — ideation, rigorous testing under realistic cost assumptions, implementation, and ongoing monitoring. You'll lead a small research agenda and mentor more junior researchers. 3+ years in systematic trading research required.

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Research Scientist — Market Microstructure Kuala Lumpur · Full-time +

A focused role for someone with a deep understanding of how orders interact with market structure at intraday timescales. You'll work closely with both the research and execution teams. Familiarity with limit order book dynamics, adverse selection, and transaction cost modeling is essential.

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Trading
Systematic Trader Kuala Lumpur · Full-time +

You own live strategies in production — monitoring their behavior, managing risk in real time, and feeding what you see at the screen back into research. You think in distributions, stay calm when the market doesn't, and know the difference between a model breaking and a regime changing. Experience trading systematic or quantitative strategies required.

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Execution Trader / Quant Kuala Lumpur · Full-time +

You care about the last basis point. You'll model and minimize transaction costs, design and tune execution algorithms, and work at the seam between research signals and the live order book. A deep understanding of market microstructure and a real feel for how orders actually fill.

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Engineering
Research Engineer Kuala Lumpur · Full-time +

You build the tools that researchers actually use — fast, reliable, and transparent. You care about correctness and hate surprises in production. Strong Python and/or C++ required; experience with high-frequency data pipelines, vectorized computation, or backtesting infrastructure is a strong signal.

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Quantitative Developer Kuala Lumpur · Full-time +

You live at the boundary between research and production — turning a researcher's prototype into clean, fast, correct code that can hold capital. Strong software engineering plus enough mathematical literacy to argue with the research, not just translate it. Python and C++; numerical computing a plus.

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Data Engineer / Data Acquisition Kuala Lumpur · Full-time +

You build and own the pipelines that turn raw market and alternative data into something researchers can trust — clean, point-in-time correct, and fast to query. You treat data quality as a first-class problem, not a chore. Experience with large time-series datasets and modern data infrastructure.

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Core Infrastructure Engineer Kuala Lumpur · Remote-friendly +

You'll own the low-latency execution infrastructure, market data systems, and risk controls that the firm runs on. We value deep expertise in systems programming and an adversarial mindset — you should be able to enumerate failure modes faster than you can name features. C++ and Linux internals are the foundation.

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Don't see an exact fit? We hire on a rolling basis. Send a short note and any work you're proud of to theta@spikinggreen.com.