RTI Researcher
Posted 17 Dec 2025
Advertised as “RTI Researcher (US Timezone)”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
Compensation
No salary listed for this role.
Role speciality
Cryptocurrency MarketsNews-Driven TradingReal-time information flows
Useful technologies
PythonRustSQLX Pro (TweetDeck)
Our client is seeking researchers for our real-time information flows team. We believe there is an unexploited opportunity in crypto markets reacting to real-time market moving news.
What You Will Do
- Work with traders and researchers to identify potential news-driven trading opportunities.
- Maintain core themes updated by communicating material information.
- Maintain a detailed calendar of material events.
- Identify key sources of breaking news for all tracked themes.
- Work with developers to streamline the ingestion of key sources.
- Monitor content flows in real-time and alert traders, researchers to potential trading opportunities.
- Build high precision, recall automated alerts for themes of interest. Prioritize, enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change.
- Constantly review alerts to ensure they are relevant, robust, and resilient
- Direct product development of our real-time event monitoring and alerting system
- QA/UAT and test all releases of alerts and product to ensure they meet the firm’s high standards of quality.
What You Will Need
- Experience & Knowledge:
- Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations: experience in identifying and generating alpha from news.
- Deep understanding of real-time information flows and their impact in the price formation process.
- Familiarity with news dissemination, tracking high-impact sources, individuals, and topics in real-time.
- Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods for optimizing alert systems.
- Technical & Analytical Skills:
- Experience using social media aggregation platforms such as X Pro (TweetDeck).
- Experience working with unstructured data, text analytics.
- Experience with market data, financial data charting, analytics.
- Proficiency in scripting, query languages, e.g., Python, Rust, SQL.
- Operational & Communication Skills:
- High attention to detail with the ability to keep track of various market themes simultaneously.
- Ability to make quick, informed decisions in high-pressure situations, including analyzing and reacting to critical market-moving events accurately.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate key insights and findings to traders and researchers.