Engineering Alpha. At Scale.
Mission: To market-make everything traded electronically.
YMS Financial is a founder-led quant trading and infrastructure firm building next-gen execution systems and research tooling for internal alpha desks and elite PMs.
Founded by Mayank Kumar (AIR 172, IIT Kanpur, ex-Qualcomm, ex-LinkedIn, ex-Graviton), YMS blends deep technical expertise with cutting-edge trading strategy. We're a lean, high-performance team where every line of code, every system, and every idea directly contributes to real capital returns.
Our mission is to build the infrastructure and research capabilities to market-make across all electronic markets — delivering precision, liquidity, and edge at every level of the stack
Work directly with a high-caliber founder with 10+ years of quant trading, infra, and research automation experience.
Solve deep technical and data challenges across low-latency infra, HPC clusters, ETL automation, and alpha deployment.
No bureaucracy. No endless meetings. Just high-impact engineering.
Autonomy, mentorship, and real ownership.
Full-time • Onsite preferred / Remote possible
₹12–16 LPA + performance bonus
Short-term project + mentorship based
Exposure to alpha generation and backtesting infrastructure
We're looking for a hands-on generalist to scale and maintain our HPC infrastructure, automate research workflows, and help deploy trading strategies. You'll work closely with the founder and own infra projects end-to-end.
Manage and scale our Linux-based HPC stack (Slurm, GlusterFS)
Automate ETL/data pipelines (Python, Bash)
Monitor system uptime and research queues
Support backtesting tools and alpha deployments
Independently design and own end-to-end infra modules
1–2 yrs experience, strong in Linux + scripting
Self-starter with ownership mindset
Preferably from CSE/EE background (IIT/NIT/IIIT/BITS)
Bonus: Open source contributions / prior infra automation projects
₹12–16 LPA + performance bonus
Onsite (preferred) / Remote (for strong fits)
Send your resume + 3–5 sentence pitch on why you want to join YMS to careers@ymsfinancial.com
Or message the founder directly on LinkedIn.