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title: 'Senior Quant Engineer at Arrakis Finance'
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# Senior Quant Engineer at Arrakis Finance

- **Company:** Arrakis Finance
- **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-03-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arrakis/1024b3a9-bf05-45ca-842e-eb276055b83f

## Job description

Arrakis aims to disrupt the current market-making industry by providing the infrastructure to enable every project in the world that wants to launch a token to benefit from non-custodial, trust-less, and automated on-chain market-making strategies. We believe in a world where every organisation, from a small startup to a large enterprise, will be tokenised and traded on-chain. For this world, Arrakis is building the tools to create the necessary liquidity to enable this token economy to rival and out-compete the traditional financial industry.

Arrakis is expanding into a new area of systematic liquidity provision across advanced on-chain trading venues. This initiative focuses on markets where derivatives, leverage, and high-frequency execution dynamics introduce a significantly more complex trading environment than traditional spot AMMs. We need a Senior Quant Engineer (not a pure researcher, not a pure developer — someone who bridges both).

## What you’ll accomplish

- Design and build market-making engines, including pricing, quoting, inventory management, and hedging logic.
- Develop and maintain real-time risk and exposure management systems, including limits, monitoring frameworks, and kill-switch mechanisms.
- Own architectural decisions related to performance, scalability, and system resilience.
- Collaborate with on-chain and protocol teams to integrate trading logic into broader infrastructure.
- Improve tooling, workflows, and deployment safety to enable faster iteration without compromising control.

## Requirements

Our ideal candidate has:

- Deep hands-on experience building order book market making strategies — specifically passive/maker-oriented, not aggressive taker strategies
- Ability to model, build, backtest, deploy, and iterate on such systems end to end
- Can articulate different market making model approaches (e.g. Avellaneda-Stoikov style math-based models vs. ML-based approaches) and their trade-offs in practice
- Based in or willing to relocate to Zürich area (3 days/week in office required)

## Benefits

Join an amazing team of industry veterans focused on revolutionising web3 market making, collaborating with major projects like MakerDAO, Uniswap, Aave, Lido, operating fully remotely with members spanning Zug, Paris, New York, Berlin supported by world-class investors including Uniswap Labs, Robot Ventures, Accel, Longhash, and more.

What we offer:

- Competitive salary
- Work with the Founders in person, in Switzerland
- Chance to travel the world to go to exciting events, connecting with key industry players
- Join amazing in-person offsites all over the world

## About Arrakis Finance

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arrakis Finance is an onchain market maker that provides automated liquidity management solutions for token issuers across multiple decentralized exchanges.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Zug, Switzerland
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) – onchain market making and liquidity infrastructure.
- **Target customers**: B2B – token issuers, protocols, liquidity providers (LPs), and real‑world asset (RWA) curators.
- **Mission**: “To make DeFi sustainable, transparent, and capital efficient.” [arrakis.finance/careers](https://arrakis.finance/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Arrakis Protocol**: Onchain market‑making infrastructure that powers automated liquidity vaults across Uniswap V4, Aerodrome, PancakeSwap, Velodrome, and Hyperliquid. Enables self‑custodial, actively managed liquidity for project tokens, RWAs, equities, and commodities.
- **Arrakis Pro**: A product layer on top of the protocol that lets token issuers launch deep, actively managed onchain markets while keeping liquidity self‑custodial. Offers hands‑off operation with capital efficiency that outperforms self‑managed pools.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of USD $1.0 million (LinkedIn estimate). Total Funding of USD $4.0 million (Seed round, September 2022, 4 investors).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 4 undisclosed investors. Integrated with Uniswap V4, Aerodrome, PancakeSwap, Velodrome, Hyperliquid, Centrifuge, Maple.
- **Growth Signals**: Monthly website traffic of ~6,678 visits (+48.4% year‑over‑year). Employee count of 11 (-5.1% YoY). Active in 6 countries (Switzerland, UK, Slovakia, India, US, Ukraine).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Self‑custodial liquidity**: Token issuers retain full control of their funds while benefiting from automated market making.
- **Capital efficiency**: Dynamically managed positions that outperform static self‑managed pools.
- **Multi‑chain, multi‑DEX coverage**: Supports major venues including Uniswap V4, Aerodrome, PancakeSwap, Velodrome, and Hyperliquid (orderbook perpetuals).
- **Original research**: Publishes proprietary research on onchain liquidity design, market dynamics, and token launch strategies (e.g., “DEX Liquidity Design 101”, oil markets on Hyperliquid).

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding into RWAs, commodities & equities**: Building deep onchain markets for yield‑bearing assets and traditional financial instruments with automatic NAV alignment.
- **Hyperliquid perpetuals**: Bootstrapping 24/7 liquid markets for spot and perpetual futures on Hyperliquid.
- **Research‑driven development**: Continued publication of frameworks and tools (e.g., HIPs, liquidity auctions) to improve capital efficiency and market depth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: A distributed team of DeFi builders that values ownership, experimentation, and long‑term thinking. Emphasis on building sustainable, transparent infrastructure.
- **Work environment**: Remote‑first with a headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. Open roles (Quant Engineering, Junior BD, Senior Quant Engineer) are listed for Zurich, suggesting a hybrid/office option for those locations.
- **Perks**: Opportunity to shape the next generation of onchain liquidity; direct impact on protocols managing billions in TVL; access to cutting‑edge DeFi research and engineering challenges.
- **Engineering culture**: Deep technical stack (Solidity, TypeScript, Python, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, blockchain infrastructure); focus on smart contract development, automated strategies, and data‑driven decision making.

## Sources
1. [arrakis.finance](https://arrakis.finance/)
2. [arrakis.finance/careers](https://arrakis.finance/careers)
3. [LinkedIn](https://ch.linkedin.com/company/arrakis_fi)
4. [docs.arrakis.finance](https://docs.arrakis.finance/)
5. [GitHub](https://github.com/arrakisfinance)

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