RTI Researcher (US Timezone)

Overview

Our client is seeking researchers for our real-time information flows team. We believe there is an unexploited opportunity in crypto markets reacting to real-time market moving news.

Responsibilities

• Work with traders and researchers to identify potential news-driven trading opportunities
• Maintain core themes updated by communicating material information
• Maintain a detailed calendar of material events
• Identify key sources of breaking news for all tracked themes
• Work with developers to streamline the ingestion of key sources
• Monitor content flows in real-time and alert traders, researchers to potential trading opportunities
• Build high precision, recall automated alerts for themes of interest. Prioritize, enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change
• Constantly review alerts to ensure they are relevant, robust, and resilient
• Direct product development of our real-time event monitoring and alerting system
• QA/UAT and test all releases of alerts and product to ensure they meet the firm’s high standards of quality

Qualifications

• Experience & Knowledge:
• Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations: experience in identifying and generating alpha from news
• Deep understanding of real-time information flows and their impact in the price formation process
• Familiarity with news dissemination, tracking high-impact sources, individuals, and topics in real-time
• Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods for optimizing alert systems

• Technical & Analytical Skills:
• Experience using social media aggregation platforms such as X Pro (TweetDeck)
• Experience working with unstructured data, text analytics
• Experience with market data, financial data charting, analytics
• Proficiency in scripting, query languages, e.g., Python, Rust, SQL

• Operational & Communication Skills:
• High attention to detail with the ability to keep track of various market themes simultaneously
• Ability to make quick, informed decisions in high-pressure situations, including analyzing and reacting to critical market-moving events accurately
• Excellent communication skills to articulate key insights and findings to traders and researchers