hermeneutic Investments ยท 3 months ago
RTI Researcher - Americas Timezone
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid LevelHermeneutic Investments is seeking researchers for their real-time information flows team, focusing on capitalizing on market-moving news in crypto markets. The RTI Researcher will work closely with traders to identify news-driven trading opportunities and streamline the ingestion of key sources for real-time monitoring and alerting.
FinanceFinancial ServicesImpact Investing
Responsibilities
Ideation
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 and maintain high-quality alerts
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
Qualification
Required
Experience generating alpha from real-time events, either at an established proprietary trading firm or your own personal account
An intuitive sense where news is likely to originate and which sources/platforms will be the first to disseminate it
Enjoy being the first to read and react to breaking news and can accurately filter signal from noise
A crypto-native and preferably have also been exposed to TradFi
A sufficient technical background to prototype ideas prior to involving development resources
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
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
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
Preferred
Experience with TradMedia platforms such as Bloomberg, LSEG/Refinitiv, Dow Jones
Strong network within the ecosystem and familiarity with key influencers, news sources, and information channels
Company
hermeneutic Investments
Hermeneutic Investments is a proprietary trading firm that focuses on capitalizing on opportunities within the cryptocurrency market.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase