Senior Systematic Trader — U.S. Equities — Kansas City

This fully remote Senior Systematic Trader — U.S. Equities opening serves Kansas City, MO and will own daily oversight and continued improvement of systematic U.S.-equity trading. Applicants must be based in the Kansas City, MO area. The position adds Central Time oversight that joins morning research review with live-market supervision.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary: $225,000–$325,000 USD, based on experience
Work arrangement: Fully remote; applicants must be based in the Kansas City, MO area
Experience: 7+ years
Additional compensation: Performance-bonus and equity eligibility based on role and level

About the Role

This opening gives the Kansas City, MO hire responsibility for live strategy supervision, exposure limits, execution review, incident response, and controlled production experiments, with operating coverage focused on Central Time oversight that joins morning research review with live-market supervision. You will connect research, engineering, trading, and risk without hiding uncertainty or operational tradeoffs.

Kansas City Operating Focus

The Kansas City opening emphasizes balanced decision timing, explicit controls, and reliable research-to-trading transfer. The Central Time schedule provides room for both morning research challenge and full live-session supervision. This opening decides when new evidence is strong enough to require escalation and when observation should continue. Research-to-trading transfers name the intended use, limit, monitoring plan, and condition that ends the experiment. For this role, that means direct ownership of live equity exposure, execution quality, escalation, and post-trade review during Central Time oversight that joins morning research review with live-market supervision.

First Review Cycle

During the initial operating review in Kansas City, MO, you will examine live equity exposure, execution quality, escalation, and post-trade review while the assigned schedule covers Central Time oversight that joins morning research review with live-market supervision. Normal controls remain in force throughout the review. The review joins two pieces of work: Investigate slippage, drift, and unusual market behavior; and Define escalation and controlled-shutdown procedures. The Kansas City opening emphasizes balanced decision timing, explicit controls, and reliable research-to-trading transfer. You will document where the results agree, where they differ, and what needs another test. The final record separates completed work, open research, and live operating risk. A reviewer must be able to trace each material decision to live strategy supervision, exposure limits, execution review, incident response, and controlled production experiments.

Responsibilities

• Monitor strategies, exposures, limits, and execution quality
• Investigate slippage, drift, and unusual market behavior
• Define escalation and controlled-shutdown procedures
• Work with research on production experiments and post-trade review
• Own live equity exposure, execution quality, escalation, and post-trade review during Central Time oversight that joins morning research review with live-market supervision.

Required Qualifications

• Seven or more years in systematic trading or electronic markets
• Direct experience with U.S.-equity execution and market structure
• Calm, documented decision-making under live-market pressure

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supervising multiple systematic strategies in production
• Knowledge of broker controls, market incidents, and trading-system recovery
• Experience collaborating across time zones while maintaining the operating coverage assigned to the Kansas City, MO opening.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plan options with substantial company support
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Annual learning, conference, and professional-development budget
• Remote-work equipment and home-office support
• Performance-bonus and equity eligibility based on role and level

Benefits are subject to plan terms and eligibility requirements.

Equal Opportunity

Anemoi provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by applicable law.