Spiking Green pairs researchers and engineers with traders who have read markets for decades — then points them all at the same problem. We're hiring across quantitative research, engineering, and finance, and we partner with universities on the questions we can't put down.
The signal is faint, rare, and gone in moments. Our entire craft is hearing it before anyone else — and having the nerve to act on it. That is the whole job. It is harder, and more satisfying, than it sounds.
We design and run systematic strategies across the world's liquid markets — equities, futures, and FX. The work runs on statistical modeling, time-series analysis, machine learning, and execution engineered for speed. Every strategy we trade was born here, stress-tested here, and is owned by the people who built it.
A hypothesis about how a market behaves, tested against years of data and honest costs. Most ideas die there — the few that survive get capital, and get watched closely.
Researchers, engineers, and traders sit together. Decades of markets instinct beside people who have never carried a P&L — arguing their way to the same answer.
Clean data, fast compute, and execution infrastructure built in-house. The edge lives in the tooling as much as the ideas, so we refuse to rent it.
Intern, join full-time, or visit from your doctorate. Whichever you pick, you will work next to people who are genuinely hard to impress — and learn faster for it.
An internship here is a desk beside some of the sharpest people in data, engineering, and trading you will meet this early in a career — and the keys to the best toys: the same data, compute, and execution stack the firm runs on every day.
We hire researchers, traders, and engineers who want to own a problem from first hypothesis to live capital — sitting beside people who have worked through every kind of market. We care how you think, not what you have traded.
For doctoral and postdoctoral researchers: a fixed-term seat to push your own research against live markets, with data and compute most labs simply cannot match.
Most days you are wrong. The craft is being wrong cheaply — and right when it counts.
Two concrete programs, run by our researchers rather than a marketing team. The research stays yours, and we want it published. We are not here to own your IP — we are here because the questions are good.
We fund academic work adjacent to our own — probability and statistics, optimization, machine learning, time-series methods, and market microstructure. The research stays yours. We back questions we find genuinely interesting and want to see answered well.
For problems we both care about, we work the same question together — your group and ours. You bring the depth; we bring data, compute, and a live testing ground few academic settings can offer.
We are a quiet firm in Kuala Lumpur that does very little marketing. What we offer is rarer than a pitch: difficult work, done well, beside people who will make you better at it.
You will sit with mathematicians, data scientists, engineers — and traders who have read markets for decades. Every one of them expects you to push back as hard as they push on you.
The best toys: high-quality data, fast compute, and execution infrastructure built in-house. You spend your hours on the problem, not on plumbing.
Early in a career, proximity is everything. We pair you with experienced people and encourage you into the office, so the learning happens up close.
Markets settle arguments quickly. The feedback is real, the ownership is real — and so is the upside when you turn out to be right.
We built this in Kuala Lumpur, on purpose. The talent here is world-class and badly underused by the firms that ignore this part of the map. If you are good, we will help you get here — relocation and the practical details included.
Student, job-seeker, researcher, or a professor with a project in mind — send a short note on what you have built and what made it interesting. A CV or a paper helps, but the thinking is what we read for.
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