Quantitative Researcher — Alternative Data — Houston

From Houston, TX, 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 Houston, TX area and provides Central Time monitoring of cross-asset conditions and the complete U.S. trading day.

Compensation and Benefits

About the Role

The central responsibility of the Houston, TX opening is data-source review from provenance and lawful use through leakage-resistant testing and ongoing monitoring. The assigned window includes Central Time monitoring of cross-asset conditions and the complete U.S. trading day. Success requires reproducible work, prompt escalation, and clear ownership through review and production use.

Houston Operating Focus

The Houston opening emphasizes disciplined links between market evidence, cross-asset risk, and operating decisions. Cross-asset review becomes important when energy prices, rates, currencies, and equity risk move together. The opening must test whether those links are stable enough to affect a decision or are only a temporary reaction. Research and trading records must identify the exact evidence used without turning a market story into an unsupported conclusion. For this role, that means direct ownership of data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls during Central Time monitoring of cross-asset conditions and the complete U.S. trading day.

First Review Cycle

The initial Houston, TX review combines Central Time monitoring of cross-asset conditions and the complete U.S. trading day with a controlled examination of data provenance, availability timing, vendor quality, and leakage controls. Each material observation needs a source, a time, and a defined owner. Your initial work includes this task: Assess provenance, coverage, revisions, latency, and licensing limits. It also includes this task: Design leakage-resistant tests with realistic availability timestamps. The Houston opening emphasizes disciplined links between market evidence, cross-asset risk, and operating decisions. The review must preserve the timing and source of each important input. 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 Central Time monitoring of cross-asset conditions and the complete U.S. trading day.

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 Houston, 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 Houston, 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.