About the role
At Kuru Labs, we are building the foundation for global markets with a focus on speed, composability, and security. Our product, Kuru Exchange, is a CLOB DEX built natively on Monad, bringing the speed and capital efficiency of centralized exchanges fully on-chain. The key differentiation: we’re pioneering an EVM-native, fully on-chain order book—unlocking a new standard for trading infrastructure in crypto. Having raised $11.8M in a Series A round led by Paradigm in July 2025, we’re now focused on thoughtfully expanding
the team.
About
The Role We’re looking for a Quantitative Researcher with experience building trading systems and a strong understanding of market structure. Reporting to the Co-Founder, you’ll help scale the exchange across volume, liquidity, and active traders—while enabling participants to run their own strategies seamlessly. The focus is on making the platform highly attractive to market makers, and continuously refining the design to improve execution quality, deepen liquidity, and drive sustainable trading activity. What You’ll Do Design, implement, and run trading strategies on KuruAnalyze exchange data to identify friction points and propose concrete improvements to the protocol, fee structures, order book mechanics, and overall trading experience Work directly with external traders, market makers, and protocols integrating into Kuru — helping them understand the system and get up and running Collaborate with the core team to stress-test ideas through simulation and backtesting before proposing them What We’re Looking For Hands-on experience running live trading strategies — crypto-native preferred, but strong TradFi market microstructure experience works too Familiarity with on-chain data (order book analytics, chain data, etc.) Intuition for market microstructure — you think about spreads, latency, adverse selection, and liquidity depth naturally Ability to communicate clearly: with protocol engineers, external traders, and non-technical stakeholders alike Genuine curiosity about DeFi
