Quantitative Research Intern

Job description

Quantitative Research Intern | Astera Holdings

Location: Remote (U.S. Preferred)
Type: Full-Time
Reports to: President

About Astera Holdings

Astera Holdings is building the operating system for real-world events — a unified intelligence layer that structures chaotic information, models uncertainty, and makes the future computational.

This system, AsteraOS, powers our ecosystem end-to-end:

Astera AI B2C: The first consumer-grade OS for event investing.

Astera Capital: Systematic trading across sports, economics, politics, and global prediction markets.

Astera Analytics: Enterprise-grade event intelligence and forecasting systems.

Our culture is a Meritocracy of Minds — scientific rigor, radical intellectual honesty, high-agency execution, and a relentless focus on truth and results.

Role Overview | Quantitative Researcher 

This is a foundational Quant Research role within Astera’s trading and forecasting engine. As a QR, you will design, test, and deploy quantitative models that directly drive live trading and the Reflexivity Engine — our real-time uncertainty modeling core.

This is not a theoretical research job.
This is production quant R&D, where models leave notebooks and enter live execution.

You’ll work across modeling, time-series forecasting, feature engineering, simulation, and signal extraction, all unified under Astera’s thesis of turning global uncertainty into a computational, tradable domain.

What You’ll Do

Develop and validate predictive models spanning time-series, ML forecasting, Bayesian inference, and event-driven signal extraction.

Turn prototypes into production systems by working tightly with engineering and infra.

Build factor libraries, feature pipelines, and signal engines grounded in statistical rigor.

Backtest trading strategies with clean methodology, robust simulation, and risk-adjusted performance frameworks.

Collaborate directly with leadership on research direction, hypothesis formulation, and model architecture.

Contribute to the Reflexivity Engine, improving its reasoning, uncertainty modeling, and structural forecasting capabilities.

Drive PnL and model performance through high-quality research and rapid iteration.

What You Bring (Signals, Not Credentials)

We don’t care about degrees or pedigree.
We care about ability, rigor, and grit.

Core Technical Strength

You should be excellent in at least one of:

1. Quantitative Modeling

Time-series forecasting

Probabilistic models

ML regression/classification

Bayesian approaches

Market microstructure intuition (a plus)

2. Machine Learning for Signals

Feature engineering

Ensemble models

Deep learning for structured/unstructured event data

Evaluation, calibration, uncertainty quantification

3. Strategy Research

Simulation frameworks

Risk modeling

Performance attribution

Live signal monitoring & stability analysis

4. Applied Engineering

(Not required, but a strong edge)

Python mastery

C++/Go familiarity

SQL + data engineering fundamentals

Building reliable backtesting or research frameworks

Core Attributes

GRIT

First-principles thinker

Obsession with truth and empirical rigor

High-agency, low-ego

Bias toward building → testing → iterating

Comfortable operating in ambiguity and speed

Why Join Astera as a QR

Your research hits production. You will see your models deployed into real strategies, not theoretical papers.

Small team = massive surface area. You’ll shape research direction, architecture, and model design.

True multidisciplinary exposure: quant, ML, systems, forecasting, and event-driven modeling.

Direct collaboration with founders and senior engineers.

How to Apply

Send your resume and any relevant links (GitHub, research, portfolio) to:
careers@astera.holdings