About the role
We are looking for an External Advisor to the Investment Committee to provide an independent senior view on investment strategy, team matters, and selected reviews across the fund's book.
This is an advisory, non-voting role. The advisor has no quorum contribution, no decision-making authority, no trading authority, and no line management responsibility.
Scope
The advisor will support the Investment Committee across:
Systematic quant strategies in liquid crypto derivatives
DeFi yield and tokenised credit positions
Private market secondaries
External manager allocations
Testing sandbox for candidate strategies and external managers
Key Responsibilities
Attend Investment Committee meetings and provide independent challenge
Submit written opinions for the record when requested
Review proposed and existing strategies across the fund's book
Provide an independent view on investment team structure, scope, and resourcing
Conduct an initial express review of the Quant Desk, with findings clearly separated from opinion
First Mandate: Quant Desk Review - the first engagement will assess the internal systematic trading function, including: strategy rationale and economic logic, research process, signal selection, and validation quality.
Required Experience
Strong quantitative finance background, ideally from hedge funds or asset management
Direct experience with systematic / code-based trading strategies, not only discretionary trading
Experience with market-neutral, long-short, statistical arbitrage, or high-turnover systematic strategies
Experience in crypto perpetual futures; relevant high-turnover systematic trading experience in other asset classes may also be considered
Strong understanding of perpetual futures mechanics: funding, mark price, liquidation, ADL, P&L, and risk impact
Ability to review a research stack end to end: feature engineering, signal search, alpha combination, portfolio construction, neutralisation, and execution
Ability to assess whether an edge survives turnover, fees, spread, and slippage
Ability to distinguish backtests, paper trading, production results, and illustrative materials
Ability to separate engineering complexity from investable edge
Willingness to give a direct, independent recommendation and defend it
What we offer:
Fully remote engagement
Hourly compensation
Non-voting Investment Committee seat
Originally posted on Himalayas