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Vigil Labs

Applied AI research for market trading

Quantitative Researcher

Quantitative Research +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timePalo Alto, CA, USAIn-person
Earn $5k if you accept an offer

About the Job

Requirements

  • Quant research experience at a top-tier firm (HRT, Jane Street, Citadel Securities, or comparable)
  • Strong statistical and programming fundamentals (Python and/or C++)
  • A track record of owning research that made it into production
  • Deep, personal interest in markets — you trade, you follow them, you think about them

Responsibilities

  • Design, research, and test systematic trading strategies end to end
  • Build and improve the research infrastructure, signals, and models that drive our trading
  • Work directly with engineers and AI researchers to ship research into production fast
  • Help set the research culture and standards of an early team

Desired Qualifications

  • Coming off garden leave / out of a noncompete
  • A senior quant who left the industry for a startup (Mercor, etc.) and misses markets

About the Company

Vigil Labs

Applied AI research for market trading

Vigil Labs is a team with backgrounds from xAI and Citadel, IMO medalists, and top ranked crypto and Polymarket traders building AI for markets. Their research lab builds technology at first to supercharge our own traders, and ultimately build a prediction engine that can enable the world to see the future better. This technology is currently deployed internally through an initial 8 figure hedge fund, anchored by the founder of IMC trading. They recently had our $29m seed round led by Ribbit Capital, with other investors include Lux Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Nova, and many angels from the Silicon Valley and finance space (Don Wilson - founder of DRW, CEO of Kalshi, Founders of DoorDash and Ramp)

Company size
1-10
Company stage
Seed
Total funding
$29M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, CA
Founded
2025

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