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Identify risks early and act on them.\n\nBuild and improve the tooling the desk runs on: position trackers, reporting dashboards, hedging workflows, reconciliation.\n\nAnalyze market and execution data to answer questions that matter - where slippage comes from, which pools are actually profitable, how our fill quality compares to the market.\n\nDevelop real depth in market structure and protocol mechanics (AMMs, PMMs, lending protocols) and bring it back to the desk.\n\nWhat we're looking for\n0-3 years of experience - recent graduates with strong technical credentials, or candidates from quant research, engineering, data, or markets-adjacent roles looking to move onto a trading desk.\n\nStrong quantitative foundation: probability, statistics, and the instinct to reach for data before opinions.\n\nPython preferred, ideally applied to financial modeling or data analysis (pandas, notebooks, working with messy datasets). 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