Quant Risk Analyst

About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.

We're growing fast, both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.

About the Role

Polymarket is building a regulated US exchange, and we're hiring a Quant Risk Manager to anchor the risk function from the ground up. This is not a maintenance role. You'll be designing the models, frameworks, and systems that protect the exchange as we launch perpetuals and traditional commodity derivatives into a live, fast-moving market.

The US Exchange team is small and moving quickly. You'll work directly with engineers, product leads, and compliance to translate quantitative risk thinking into real infrastructure. That means writing code, making policy calls, and owning outcomes across margin design, stress t