Quantitative Researcher — Portfolio Construction — Dallas

This Dallas, TX-based, fully remote Quantitative Researcher — Portfolio Construction position will build portfolio methods that translate research signals into controlled exposures. Applicants must live in the local area, which gives the team Central Time coordination of market-open decisions and cross-team risk review.

Compensation and Benefits

About the Role

The central responsibility of the Dallas, TX opening is allocation methods, portfolio constraints, concentration limits, turnover controls, and stress diagnostics. The assigned window includes Central Time coordination of market-open decisions and cross-team risk review. Success requires reproducible work, prompt escalation, and clear ownership through review and production use.

Dallas Operating Focus

The Dallas opening emphasizes measurable controls, prompt escalation, and reliable links between research and production. The operating day joins pre-market readiness, live risk review, and production follow-through. This opening must make cross-team decisions measurable by recording the trigger for escalation, the person who approved the response, and the condition that ends it. Routine work should be automated only after its failure behavior is understood. For this role, that means direct ownership of portfolio constraints, exposure diagnostics, and stress review during Central Time coordination of market-open decisions and cross-team risk review.

First Review Cycle

In Dallas, TX, the first formal review will assess portfolio constraints, exposure diagnostics, and stress review under the normal controls used for Central Time coordination of market-open decisions and cross-team risk review. Any proposed response must remain within an approved limit. You will first complete this task: Model factor, sector, liquidity, and concentration constraints. You will then complete this task: Measure turnover, capacity, and stress behavior. The Dallas opening emphasizes measurable controls, prompt escalation, and reliable links between research and production. An unexpected result stays open until the evidence supports a disposition. The review is complete when a peer can reproduce the evidence, inspect the decision limit, and trace the outcome through allocation methods, portfolio constraints, concentration limits, turnover controls, and stress diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Develop allocation and risk-budgeting methods
• Model factor, sector, liquidity, and concentration constraints
• Measure turnover, capacity, and stress behavior
• Create transparent diagnostics for portfolio decisions
• Own portfolio constraints, exposure diagnostics, and stress review during Central Time coordination of market-open decisions and cross-team risk review.

Required Qualifications

• Experience with portfolio optimization and risk models
• Strong numerical Python and optimization skills
• Ability to explain model tradeoffs to researchers and traders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with transaction-cost-aware optimization and scenario analysis
• Knowledge of production controls for constrained portfolios
• Experience collaborating across time zones while maintaining the operating coverage assigned to the Dallas, 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 Dallas, 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.