Trade Surveillance Expert at Mercor

Trade Surveillance Expert | $100/hr | Worldwide Remote

Mercor is seeking experienced Trade Surveillance Experts to support the development and evaluation of advanced AI systems used in capital markets compliance and market abuse detection. This is an exciting opportunity to shape next-generation RegTech tools by applying your deep expertise in trade surveillance, market conduct monitoring, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyse simulated and real-world trading scenarios for indicators of market abuse.
• Evaluate AI-generated surveillance alerts and determine whether 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, and 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 improve AI models used for compliance monitoring and financial crime detection.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Trade Surveillance, Market Abuse Monitoring, Compliance Surveillance, or Regulatory Oversight.
• Hands-on experience with platforms such as Nasdaq SMARTS, NICE Actimize, Eventus Validus, ACA Sigma, SteelEye, eFlow, TradingHub, or similar surveillance solutions.
• Strong understanding of market abuse regulations including SEC/FINRA rules, MAR, MiFID II, and FCA market conduct requirements.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Why Join?

• Help build AI systems capable of performing sophisticated market surveillance and compliance analysis.
• Work on cutting-edge RegTech projects with real-world regulatory applications.
• Collaborate with experts across trading, compliance, surveillance, and financial crime disciplines.
• Play a direct role in shaping the future of AI-assisted monitoring for global financial markets.