Digital-Asset Quantitative Trader — Baltimore

Anemoi is hiring a fully remote Digital-Asset Quantitative Trader based in the Baltimore, MD area to build a controlled institutional process for liquid digital-asset markets. The opening is designed for Eastern Time preparation for the open, intraday risk review, and close control.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary: $185,000–$280,000 USD, based on experience
Work arrangement: Fully remote; applicants must be based in the Baltimore, MD area
Experience: 5+ years
Additional compensation: Performance-bonus and equity eligibility based on role and level

About the Role

This opening gives the Baltimore, MD hire responsibility for continuous-market coverage, venue and counterparty exposure, funding, custody constraints, and weekend controls, with operating coverage focused on Eastern Time preparation for the open, intraday risk review, and close control. You will connect research, engineering, trading, and risk without hiding uncertainty or operational tradeoffs.

Baltimore Operating Focus

The Baltimore opening emphasizes evidence quality, prompt escalation, and clear separation of research from live decisions. Pre-market work confirms that research inputs and operating controls are ready before risk is active. During the session, the opening separates evidence collection from authority to change production behavior. Close review checks that escalation decisions were proportional, documented, and assigned to the correct follow-up process. For this role, that means direct ownership of continuous-market exposure, fragmented liquidity, venue risk, and shift handoffs during Eastern Time preparation for the open, intraday risk review, and close control.

First Review Cycle

The initial Baltimore, MD review combines Eastern Time preparation for the open, intraday risk review, and close control with a controlled examination of continuous-market exposure, fragmented liquidity, venue risk, and shift handoffs. Each material observation needs a source, a time, and a defined owner. The review joins two pieces of work: Design weekend and overnight operating controls; and Research market structure while respecting legal and counterparty limits. The Baltimore opening emphasizes evidence quality, prompt escalation, and clear separation of research from live decisions. You will document where the results agree, where they differ, and what needs another test. The closing record identifies the evidence, approval, limit, and next test. A second specialist must be able to evaluate continuous-market coverage, venue and counterparty exposure, funding, custody constraints, and weekend controls from the same starting facts.

Responsibilities

• Monitor positions, liquidity, venue exposure, and funding
• Evaluate execution across centralized venues
• Design weekend and overnight operating controls
• Research market structure while respecting legal and counterparty limits
• Own continuous-market exposure, fragmented liquidity, venue risk, and shift handoffs during Eastern Time preparation for the open, intraday risk review, and close control.

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years in quantitative trading, including digital assets
• Experience with continuous markets, exchange APIs, and venue risk
• Strong Python, statistics, and operational discipline

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with custody workflows, funding markets, and fragmented liquidity
• A record of managing weekend, overnight, and venue-failure procedures
• Experience collaborating across time zones while maintaining the operating coverage assigned to the Baltimore, MD 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.