Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data — Louisville

This fully remote Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data opening serves Louisville, KY and will evaluate new datasets for genuine, repeatable investment information. Applicants must be based in the Louisville, KY area. The position adds Eastern Time coordination of daily research checks, live decisions, and final reconciliation.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary: $170,000–$240,000 USD, based on experience
Work arrangement: Fully remote; applicants must be based in the Louisville, KY area
Experience: 3+ years
Additional compensation: Performance-bonus and equity eligibility based on role and level

About the Role

This opening gives the Louisville, KY hire responsibility for data-source review from provenance and lawful use through leakage-resistant testing and ongoing monitoring, with operating coverage focused on Eastern Time coordination of daily research checks, live decisions, and final reconciliation. You will connect research, engineering, trading, and risk without hiding uncertainty or operational tradeoffs.

Louisville Operating Focus

The Louisville opening emphasizes repeatable controls, well-defined ownership, and concise cross-functional review. The day starts with a short list of required research and operating checks rather than a broad status meeting. Live exceptions use defined severity and ownership rules. Final reconciliation closes completed work, preserves evidence for material decisions, and prevents an unresolved item from disappearing when responsibility moves to another person. For this role, that means direct ownership of data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Eastern Time coordination of daily research checks, live decisions, and final reconciliation.

First Review Cycle

Your first documented cycle for the Louisville, KY opening will test the operating process for data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Eastern Time coordination of daily research checks, live decisions, and final reconciliation. The objective is a reproducible baseline, not a quick narrative. 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 Louisville opening emphasizes repeatable controls, well-defined ownership, and concise cross-functional review. The review must preserve the timing and source of each important input. The review closes only after another specialist can reproduce the key checks and identify the evidence behind the outcome for 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 coordination of daily research checks, live decisions, and final reconciliation.

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 Louisville, KY 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 Louisville, KY 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.

Job Categories: Quantitative Research
Job Types: Full Time
Job Locations: Louisville, KY — Remote

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