Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data — Charlotte

This Charlotte, NC-based, fully remote Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data position will evaluate new datasets for genuine, repeatable investment information. Applicants must live in the local area, which gives the team Eastern Time coverage of pre-market controls, the cash session, and close reconciliation.

Compensation and Benefits

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

About the Role

In this Charlotte, NC 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 coverage of pre-market controls, the cash session, and close reconciliation. The work requires direct communication, explicit limits, and records that remain useful after market conditions change.

Charlotte Operating Focus

The Charlotte opening emphasizes controlled financial operations, risk escalation, and complete decision records. The daily process begins with control checks and ends with reconciliation of decisions, exposures, and unresolved exceptions. Live issues move through a defined escalation path rather than an informal message chain. This opening must keep research evidence, production action, and risk approval distinct even when the market requires a fast response. For this role, that means direct ownership of data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Eastern Time coverage of pre-market controls, the cash session, and close reconciliation.

First Review Cycle

Your first documented cycle for the Charlotte, NC opening will test the operating process for data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Eastern Time coverage of pre-market controls, the cash session, and close reconciliation. The objective is a reproducible baseline, not a quick narrative. Your initial work includes this task: Measure incremental value against existing information. It also includes this task: Maintain data-quality and vendor-monitoring controls. The Charlotte opening emphasizes controlled financial operations, risk escalation, and complete decision records. The review must preserve the timing and source of each important input. At the end of the cycle, you will show how the evidence supports or challenges data-source review from provenance and lawful use through leakage-resistant testing and ongoing monitoring. Open questions stay visible until another review resolves them.

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 coverage of pre-market controls, the cash session, and close 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 Charlotte, NC 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 Charlotte, NC 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: Charlotte, NC — Remote

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