Senior Execution Quant

Overview

K-Hawk Capital is a systematic trading firm focused on high-turnover intraday strategies in equities and futures. Our performance depends on elite execution: disciplined transaction-cost control, deep market microstructure insight, and tight integration with live trading systems.

We are hiring an Execution Quant to own and continuously improve the execution layer across our systematic strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize execution algorithms for intraday equity and futures trading

• Build, calibrate, and maintain transaction cost models (TCM) incorporating spread, slippage, market impact, queue position, and fill probability

• Develop optimal order routing across exchanges, venues, and order types

• Integrate and evaluate broker execution algorithms (e.g., VWAP, POV, IS, adaptive / liquidity-seeking)

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