RTI Researcher (US Timezone)

Nahc.io

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Chicago remote Until 8/21/2026 First posted January 16, 2026 Last posted January 16, 2026
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.
About this role

Summary

Identify and monitor real-time news for trading opportunities, develop alert systems, and communicate insights.

Job title

RTI Researcher (US Timezone)

Experience level

experience in trading firms or financial news organizations

Industry

finance

Location requirements

Chicago-based, remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonSQLtext analyticsmarket data

Preferred skills

social media aggregationunstructured datafinancial data charting

Specializations

news analysistext analyticsmarket dataalert systems
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Chicago, IL, USA

Remote City