Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data — San Antonio

Based in the San Antonio, TX area, this fully remote Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data will evaluate new datasets for genuine, repeatable investment information. The operating schedule centers on Central Time coverage for live monitoring, afternoon investigation, and close review.

Compensation and Benefits

About the Role

This opening gives the San Antonio, TX hire responsibility for data-source review from provenance and lawful use through leakage-resistant testing and ongoing monitoring, with operating coverage focused on Central Time coverage for live monitoring, afternoon investigation, and close review. You will connect research, engineering, trading, and risk without hiding uncertainty or operational tradeoffs.

San Antonio Operating Focus

The San Antonio opening emphasizes calm incident handling and clear ownership from research through post-trade analysis. Central Time creates useful overlap with both Eastern and Pacific colleagues, but overlap does not remove the need for explicit handoffs. The opening owns midday status review, afternoon exception handling, and unresolved-issue transfer. A decision is not complete until its assumptions, limits, and next check are visible to another specialist. For this role, that means direct ownership of data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Central Time coverage for live monitoring, afternoon investigation, and close review.

First Review Cycle

For the first complete work cycle in San Antonio, TX, you will use Central Time coverage for live monitoring, afternoon investigation, and close review to test how the team measures and escalates changes in data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls. Your initial work includes this task: Maintain data-quality and vendor-monitoring controls. It also includes this task: Assess provenance, coverage, revisions, latency, and licensing limits. The San Antonio opening emphasizes calm incident handling and clear ownership from research through post-trade analysis. The review must preserve the timing and source of each important input. The final handoff will name the current state, the responsible person, and the next verification step. It will preserve a clear path back to data-source review from provenance and lawful use through leakage-resistant testing and ongoing monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Assess provenance, coverage, revisions, latency, and licensing limits
• Design leakage-resistant tests with realistic availability timestamps
• Measure incremental value against existing information
• Maintain data-quality and vendor-monitoring controls
• Own data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Central Time coverage for live monitoring, afternoon investigation, and close review.

Required Qualifications

• Experience researching large, messy, time-indexed datasets
• Python, SQL, experimental design, and data-lineage skills
• Sound judgment about privacy, licensing, and data leakage

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience conducting vendor diligence and dataset acceptance testing
• Ability to identify revisions, survivorship effects, and hidden availability delays
• Experience collaborating across time zones while maintaining the operating coverage assigned to the San Antonio, TX opening.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plan options with substantial company support
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Annual learning, conference, and professional-development budget
• Remote-work equipment and home-office support
• Performance-bonus and equity eligibility based on role and level

Benefits are subject to plan terms and eligibility requirements.

How to Apply

Submit a current resume through the application form for the San Antonio, TX opening. A short cover letter is optional. We will contact qualified applicants about the interview process and next steps.

Equal Opportunity

Anemoi provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by applicable law.