Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data — Washington

From Washington, DC, the fully remote Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data will evaluate new datasets for genuine, repeatable investment information. This opening is limited to applicants based in the Washington, DC area and provides Eastern Time monitoring of market events, policy-sensitive sessions, and close review.

Compensation and Benefits

About the Role

In this Washington, DC role, you will be accountable for data-source review from provenance and lawful use through leakage-resistant testing and ongoing monitoring while supporting Eastern Time monitoring of market events, policy-sensitive sessions, and close review. The work requires direct communication, explicit limits, and records that remain useful after market conditions change.

Washington Operating Focus

The Washington opening emphasizes careful treatment of event risk, source quality, and documented decision limits. Scheduled policy events and unexpected public announcements can change market conditions quickly. This opening verifies source timing, separates confirmed information from interpretation, and avoids treating a headline as proof of a durable regime. Event procedures define exposure checks, communication order, and the point when normal operations resume. For this role, that means direct ownership of data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Eastern Time monitoring of market events, policy-sensitive sessions, and close review.

First Review Cycle

The Washington, DC opening begins with an end-to-end review of data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Eastern Time monitoring of market events, policy-sensitive sessions, and close review. The review will keep research observations separate from live production decisions. Two assigned tasks anchor the evidence: Measure incremental value against existing information; and Maintain data-quality and vendor-monitoring controls. The Washington opening emphasizes careful treatment of event risk, source quality, and documented decision limits. The record must show how each result affected the review. Before the review closes, you will state what changed, what did not change, and what needs more evidence. A peer must be able to follow the result 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 Eastern Time monitoring of market events, policy-sensitive sessions, 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 Washington, DC 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 Washington, DC 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.