Senior PJM FTR Trader

Active Power Investments; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Active Power Investments seeks a senior trader to own a PJM FTR/CRR book with full autonomy, advising strategy, sizing, and risk management. The role focuses on risk-adjusted PnL and cross-portfolio integration, with a flexible toolset and remote work arrangement.

The ideal candidate combines quantitative rigor with commercial instinct, able to translate market insights into durable trading performance while operating independently across long-term, annual, and monthly auction cycles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (finance, economics, engineering, math, or physics).
• Proven PJM FTR/CRR trading experience preferred or strong equivalent in related ISO markets.
• Programming skills in Python, R, and SQL for research and backtesting.
• Demonstrated record of risk-managed PnL generation in electricity markets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a PJM FTR/CRR book with autonomous ownership.
• Model transmission congestion, outage schedules, and grid topology for pricing opportunities.
• Oversee risk controls, limits, scenario testing, and PnL attribution.
• Select and maintain analytics, data, modelling, and execution tools for the book.
• Extend strategy to adjacent PJM products (virtuals, up-to-congestion, spreads) as appropriate.
• Report position, risk, and performance to firm leadership on a regular cadence.

Skills

Risk management

Quantitative analysis

Autonomy

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Backtesting

Job description

About Active Power Investments

Active Power Investments LLC is a market participant in the North American wholesale power markets. We engage in virtual transactions (VTs), participate in Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs) / Congestion Revenue Rights (CRRs) auctions, and engage in related energy trading in electric power and natural gas futures and exchange-traded derivatives. We offer exposure to these unique investment opportunities, which provide an exceptional combination of returns and portfolio diversification.

Our team develops and executes strategies across:

• Independent System Operator (ISO) markets, such as CAISO, ERCOT, MISO, NYISO, PJM, and SPP.
• Exchanges, such as ICE and CME, which offer related energy and commodities products.

Role Summary

We operate in markets where disciplined analysis, strong judgment, and rigorous risk management matter. We're adding a senior trader who can translate market insight into durable, risk-adjusted trading performance — with real ownership of a proprietary, PJM-focused FTR book and the latitude to define strategy, drive position sizing, and manage risk with a high degree of autonomy.

This seat suits someone who combines commercial instinct with quantitative rigour, and who wants to shape both the trading approach and the analytical toolkit behind it — we're flexible on the specific tools and platforms you use. We're hiring for a proven ability to generate risk-adjusted PnL in PJM's FTR/CRR markets, not for years of tenure alone.

This role is 100% remote, giving you the flexibility to run the book from wherever you work best.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and manage a PJM FTR/CRR portfolio across long-term, annual, and monthly auctions, including position sizing, hedging, and rebalancing.
• Model transmission congestion, outage schedules, and grid topology to identify and price trading opportunities across the network.
• Own risk management for the book: position limits, scenario/stress testing, mark-to-model vs. realized PnL reconciliation, and detailed PnL attribution.
• Select and maintain the analytical stack (data, modelling, and execution tools) needed to run the book effectively — firm is flexible on toolset.
• Where relevant, extend the strategy into adjacent PJM products (virtuals, up-to-congestion, day-ahead/real-time spread trades) opportunistically.
• Report position, risk, and performance to firm leadership on a regular cadence.

• Senior-level experience operating autonomously with full ownership of risk.

• Proven experience owning a PJM FTR/CRR book across long-term, annual, and monthly auction cycles, with a demonstrated strong PnL track record and verifiable results.
• Deep working knowledge of PJM market rules, auction mechanics, and transmission and congestion dynamics.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including the ability to build and validate models.
• Experience reporting positions, risk, and performance to firm leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (finance, economics, engineering, math, or physics) — valued, but not required; a strong, verifiable trading track record is of greatest importance
• Experience trading FTRs/CRRs or congestion products in other ISOs (MISO, ERCOT, SPP, NYISO).
• Track record in adjacent PJM products — virtuals, up-to-congestion, or spread trading
• Programming/data skills (Python, R, SQL) for independent research and backtesting
• Prior experience mentoring junior traders or analysts

• Total compensation for this seat combines a base salary with a profit-sharing component tied to book performance and is structured to scale with experience and track record.