Trade Surveillance Expert for AI Model Evaluation [Remote]

As a Trade Surveillance Expert, you will play a pivotal role in the development and evaluation of advanced AI systems designed for capital markets compliance and market abuse detection. Your expertise in trade surveillance, market conduct monitoring, and regulatory compliance will be essential in evaluating complex trading scenarios, identifying suspicious activities, and generating high-quality training data for next-generation AI models. This position is ideal for professionals experienced with surveillance systems such as Nasdaq SMARTS, NICE Actimize, eFlow, ACA Sigma, SteelEye, and Eventus Validus, who have a background in investigating market abuse cases and a solid understanding of global regulatory frameworks. Key Responsibilities

• Review and analyze simulated and real-world trading scenarios for indicators of market abuse.
• Evaluate AI-generated surveillance alerts to determine if escalation, closure, or further investigation is warranted.
• Develop and refine surveillance evaluation rubrics covering:
• Insider Trading
• Market Manipulation
• Spoofing & Layering
• Wash Trading
• Front Running
• Marking the Close
• Cross-Market Manipulation
• Information Leakage
• Assess trade surveillance workflows and alert investigation methodologies.
• Provide expert feedback on AI-generated case narratives, investigations, and regulatory reasoning.
• Validate whether surveillance conclusions align with applicable regulations and industry best practices.
• Contribute domain expertise to enhance AI models used for compliance monitoring and financial crime detection.

• 5+ years of experience in Trade Surveillance, Market Surveillance, Market Abuse Monitoring, Compliance Surveillance, or Regulatory Oversight.
• Hands-on experience with one or more surveillance platforms such as Nasdaq SMARTS, NICE Actimize, Eventus Validus, ACA Sigma, SteelEye, eFlow, OneMarket Surveillance, TradingHub, or similar solutions.
• Strong understanding of market abuse regulations and frameworks, including SEC and FINRA regulations, MAR (Market Abuse Regulation), MiFID II, FCA market conduct requirements, and exchange surveillance standards.
• Experience investigating surveillance alerts and documenting case outcomes.
• Familiarity with equities, options, futures, fixed income, FX, commodities, or digital asset markets.
• Ability to clearly articulate investigative reasoning and regulatory conclusions in written form.
• Fluent English communication skills.

• Experience at investment banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, regulatory agencies, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, or surveillance technology providers.
• Prior involvement in surveillance model tuning, alert calibration, threshold optimization, or surveillance program design.
• Experience working directly with regulators or responding to regulatory inquiries and examinations.
• Knowledge of algorithmic trading, high-frequency trading, and electronic market structure.
• Certifications such as CAMS, CISI, CFA, FRM, or equivalent compliance-related credentials.

• Help build AI systems capable of performing sophisticated market surveillance and compliance analysis.
• Work on cutting-edge financial technology projects with direct applications in regulatory technology (RegTech).
• Collaborate with experts from trading, compliance, surveillance, and financial crime disciplines.
• Shape the future of AI-assisted monitoring for global financial markets.