Careers / Ways to work with us
This is not work
you spectate.
Full-time roles, internships and focused research collaborations all begin the same way here: with a difficult problem, clear ownership and work that has to hold up under scrutiny.
Research, engineering, data and product.
Structured early-career technical work.
Focused dialogue around serious questions.
Register interest before a role opens.
Opportunity map / Browse the work
Find the problem
worth owning.
These pathways show where people could contribute. Public status is displayed on every row; when a role is not actively hiring, you can still register thoughtful interest.
01Quantitative Research EngineerResearch / Kolkata / IndiaFull-timeInterest pool+
Turn market questions into testable, defensible research and production-ready logic.
Work across hypothesis design, data analysis, causal backtesting and the careful translation of research into systems that can be monitored and improved.
- Build and challenge research hypotheses
- Design causal tests and robustness checks
- Partner with engineers on implementation and monitoring
- Strong Python and statistical reasoning
- Comfort with noisy data and ambiguous questions
- A habit of documenting evidence, limits and decisions
02Trading Systems EngineerEngineering / Kolkata / IndiaFull-timeInterest pool+
Build dependable software for a live environment where correctness is part of the product.
Own the path from an approved rule set to observable, resilient software—working close to research, risk and market infrastructure.
- Engineer reliable event-driven services
- Build controls, logs and failure recovery
- Improve performance without trading away clarity
- Excellent software fundamentals
- A systems mindset and calm debugging habits
- Care for tests, instrumentation and operational detail
03Market Data EngineerData / Kolkata / IndiaFull-timeInterest pool+
Make high-volume market data accurate, traceable and useful from ingestion to research.
Develop the pipelines and data contracts that let researchers and systems reason from the same trustworthy record.
- Build ingestion and transformation pipelines
- Design data-quality and lineage checks
- Tune storage and query paths for analytical work
- Strong SQL and Python
- Experience with time-series or streaming data
- An instinct for edge cases, provenance and reproducibility
04Product Engineer, Trading ToolsProduct / Kolkata / IndiaFull-timeInterest pool+
Create internal tools that make complex systems legible to the people operating them.
Design and build focused interfaces for monitoring, investigation and decision support—without hiding the underlying evidence.
- Build clear internal dashboards and workflows
- Translate operator needs into dependable tools
- Improve usability across research and live monitoring
- Full-stack product engineering ability
- Good visual and information-design judgement
- Comfort working directly with technical users
05Quantitative Research CollaborationResearch / India / FlexibleResearchResearch dialogue+
Explore a serious market or systems question with a team that expects evidence to survive contact with reality.
A route for researchers and advanced practitioners whose work intersects with market microstructure, applied mathematics, physics, statistics or robust systems.
- Frame a bounded research question
- Agree evidence and validation standards
- Share findings with clarity about assumptions and limits
- A specific area of depth
- Original work you can explain and defend
- Respect for confidentiality and research ownership
06CSE Engineering InternshipEarly careers / Remote / IndiaInternshipCohort pathway+
A six-month route into real research and engineering work for students ready to take ownership.
Contribute through quant and backtesting, data engineering, full-stack tools or machine-learning research with direct feedback from a technical team.
- Own a defined project and its evidence
- Communicate progress and blockers directly
- Produce code, documentation and a final handover
- CSE or an allied technical discipline
- Evidence of building beyond coursework
- Curiosity, self-direction and strong fundamentals
What you bring
Curiosity with teeth.
- You write code and care whether it is correct.
- You can defend a decision with evidence.
- You ask for context, then take ownership.
- You see better ways to build—and say so.
What you can expect
Clarity before commitment.
- A defined role, scope and point of contact.
- Clear terms for salaried, stipended and unpaid pathways.
- Direct collaboration, regular feedback and real ownership.
- Paths for employees, interns, fellows and project contributors.
Real access carries real responsibility.
People working with Starrdust may be close to sensitive research, systems and data. Confidentiality and company ownership of work product are part of that trust—not fine print around pretend work.
Early careers / Six-month internship
A serious first
seat at the table.
The internship remains one pathway—not the whole careers page. It is designed for CSE undergraduates and students in allied technical disciplines who want production-adjacent work and direct technical feedback.
- Format
- Remote
- Term
- 6 months
- Compensation
- Unpaid
- Outcome
- Certificate / performance-based PPO conversation
Register your interest
Show us how
you think.
Tell us which pathway fits, what you have built, what problem you cannot stop thinking about, and what you would improve if given the chance.
Write to us ↗Opportunity status, availability and selection criteria are confirmed during the conversation. Registering interest does not imply an active opening.