RTI Researcher (US Timezone)

nahc.io; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial information firm is seeking researchers for their real-time information flows team in Chicago. The role involves identifying news-driven trading opportunities, maintaining event calendars, and monitoring key sources. Ideal candidates will have experience in trading or finance, strong technical skills in scripting and data analytics, and the ability to make quick decisions in high-pressure situations. Good communication skills are essential to relay findings to traders effectively.

Qualifications

• Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, or financial news organizations.
• Deep understanding of how real-time information affects price formation.
• Familiarity with news dissemination and tracking high-impact sources.
• Experience with precision/recall scoring for alert systems.
• Strong communication to articulate insights to traders and researchers.

Responsibilities

• Work with traders to identify news-driven trading opportunities.
• Maintain a calendar of material events and monitor content flows.
• Build and optimize automated alerts for trading themes.
• Monitor real-time content and alert traders to opportunities.
• Develop and refine high-precision alerts; adjust as market conditions change.
• QA/UAT and ensure releases meet quality standards.

Skills

Experience in trading firms or hedge funds

Understanding of real-time information flows

Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods

Experience using social media aggregation platforms

Proficiency in scripting languages

High attention to detail

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Python

Rust

SQL

Job description

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.