Quant Trader / Researcher – Options & Systematic Derivatives

Northstar Quant
Mumbai Metropolitan Region

About The Role

We are looking for a Quant Trader / Researcher to design, research, backtest, and trade systematic options strategies across NSE and BSE.

This is a research-to-trading role where you will own ideas end-to-end—from identifying market behaviour and developing hypotheses to backtesting, live deployment, and monitoring real P&L.

The primary focus will be on weekly index and liquid stock options, with particular emphasis on volatility, Greeks, expiry behaviour, market microstructure, and systematic signal generation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, backtest, and trade systematic options strategies across Nifty, Bank Nifty, FinNifty, Sensex and liquid stock options.
  • Research the behaviour of Delta, Gamma, Theta and Vega across weekly expiry cycles.
  • Develop strategies around theta decay, gamma dynamics, expiry-day behaviour, pinning and volatility dislocations.
  • Research implied volatility surfaces, term structure, skew, IV crush and realised-vs-implied volatility.
  • Generate and evaluate signals using technical, derivatives and market-microstructure data.
  • Work with datasets including Open Interest, PCR, OI changes, basis, price/volume and intraday data.
  • Use statistical modelling, time-series analysis and machine learning for signal generation, regime detection and risk-reward estimation.
  • Conduct rigorous backtesting across different market regimes, time periods and volatility conditions.
  • Identify overfitting, look-ahead bias, survivorship bias and other research pitfalls.
  • Translate validated research into live trading strategies in collaboration with trading and technology teams.
  • Monitor live strategy performance, risk, exposures and P&L and recommend improvements where required.
  • Continuously research new systematic opportunities and improve existing strategies.

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • 3–5 years of relevant experience in options trading, quantitative research or systematic derivatives trading.
  • Hands-on experience trading or researching Indian options markets.
  • Strong understanding of options pricing, Greeks, volatility and derivatives strategy construction.
  • Good understanding of NSE/BSE market structure and weekly expiry mechanics.
  • Strong Python skills with experience in Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn and/or Polars.
  • Strong foundation in statistics, probability, time-series analysis and quantitative modelling.
  • Experience working with large historical and/or intraday market datasets.
  • Ability to clean, transform and engineer features from financial market data.
  • Experience with backtesting frameworks or quantitative research infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of Sharpe ratio, drawdown, Calmar ratio, hit rate, exposure and risk-adjusted returns.
  • Ability to independently take a research idea from hypothesis through backtesting and, ultimately, live deployment.
  • Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, research-driven environment.

Preferred / Good To Have

  • Experience in volatility modelling or volatility trading.
  • Experience with options market-making or systematic execution.
  • Experience applying machine learning to trading strategies.
  • Experience building a backtesting framework or research infrastructure from scratch.
  • Experience with order-flow and market-microstructure signals.
  • Experience trading or researching expiry-day strategies.
  • Familiarity with high-frequency or tick-level data.

What We Offer

  • Opportunity to work on systematic strategies across some of the world’s most liquid derivatives markets.
  • Direct ownership of research ideas that translate into live positions and real P&L.
  • Exposure to quantitative research, live trading, technology and risk management.
  • A high-performance environment that values rigorous research over shortcuts.
  • Opportunity to work closely with experienced traders, researchers and technologists.
  • Scope to build and influence Northstar’s systematic trading capabilities from the ground up.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is not just a trader or just a researcher. We are looking for someone who understands options deeply, thinks quantitatively, can code and backtest independently, and is comfortable taking ownership from idea → research → validation → live strategy → performance monitoring.

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 3–5 years

Function: Quantitative Trading / Research

Employment: Full-Time

Skills: research,trading,derivatives,backtesting

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