Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data — Sacramento

Anemoi is hiring a fully remote Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data based in the Sacramento, CA area to evaluate new datasets for genuine, repeatable investment information. The opening is designed for Pacific Time monitoring of policy-sensitive events, the U.S. close, and after-hours review.

Compensation and Benefits

About the Role

This opening gives the Sacramento, CA hire responsibility for data-source review from provenance and lawful use through leakage-resistant testing and ongoing monitoring, with operating coverage focused on Pacific Time monitoring of policy-sensitive events, the U.S. close, and after-hours review. You will connect research, engineering, trading, and risk without hiding uncertainty or operational tradeoffs.

Sacramento Operating Focus

The Sacramento opening emphasizes source discipline, event-risk controls, and careful documentation of assumptions. Policy-sensitive events require careful source control and a clear record of what was known at each time. This opening reviews late-session behavior without implying that price proves a specific cause. After-hours analysis separates immediate operating needs from research questions that deserve a slower and more complete test. For this role, that means direct ownership of data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Pacific Time monitoring of policy-sensitive events, the U.S. close, and after-hours review.

First Review Cycle

The Sacramento, CA opening begins with an end-to-end review of data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Pacific Time monitoring of policy-sensitive events, the U.S. close, and after-hours review. The review will keep research observations separate from live production decisions. Two assigned tasks anchor the evidence: Maintain data-quality and vendor-monitoring controls; and Assess provenance, coverage, revisions, latency, and licensing limits. The Sacramento opening emphasizes source discipline, event-risk controls, and careful documentation of assumptions. The record must show how each result affected the review. Completion requires a repeatable evidence path, a clear response boundary, and a time for the next check. Those records must connect directly 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 Pacific Time monitoring of policy-sensitive events, the U.S. close, and after-hours 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 Sacramento, CA 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 Sacramento, CA 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.