Compliance Associate, Market Surveillance

Join FalconX as a Compliance Associate in New York City to maintain the integrity of our trading platform and digital asset markets, focusing on trade surveillance and market abuse detection.

Who are we? FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever-evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

• •Trade Surveillance & Market Abuse Detection:
• •Alert Triage & Investigation: Independently review, investigate, and disposition trade surveillance alerts across digital asset markets, including potential wash trading, spoofing, layering, front-running, and insider trading.
• •Pattern Recognition: Analyze trading activity across order books, execution venues, and counterparties to identify manipulative patterns, anomalous behaviors, and coordinated trading schemes in both spot, spot-related derivatives markets, and tokenized real world assets and their derivative markets.
• •Escalation: Identify regulatory red flags and suspicious trading patterns, and prepare comprehensive investigative narratives with supporting evidence to escalate to the Compliance Manager.
• •Token & Asset Due Diligence:
• •New Listing Assessments: Conduct thorough due diligence on tokens and digital assets prior to onboarding, evaluating tokenomics, liquidity profiles, smart contract risk, governance structures, and issuer background.
• •Ongoing Monitoring: Continuously assess listed assets for material changes—regulatory actions, delistings on peer venues, rug-pull indicators, wash trading in underlying markets, or significant shifts in holder concentration—and escalate findings with clear risk narratives.
• •Market Integrity Scoring: Contribute to internal frameworks for assessing asset-level manipulation risk, incorporating on-chain analytics, order book health metrics, and cross-venue liquidity indicators.
• •Process Optimization & Collaboration:
• •AI-Augmented Investigation: Leverage AI-assisted surveillance tooling to investigate alerts and surface risk patterns, contribute to real-world feedback on model outputs, prompt effectiveness, and detection gaps to continuously improve the accuracy and utility of FalconX's surveillance capabilities.
• •Tooling & Automation: Partner with Engineering and Data teams to enhance surveillance platform capabilities, contributing use-case requirements, testing detection scenarios, and validating model outputs.
• •Regulatory Compliance & Audit Support:
• •Regulatory Alignment: Maintain a deep, up-to-date understanding of market abuse regulations across jurisdictions (CFTC, SEC, MiCA, MAS) and digital-asset-specific guidance to ensure surveillance coverage remains fully compliant.
• •Policy Contribution: Partner with the Compliance Manager to update surveillance procedures, detection playbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) as regulations and market structures evolve.
• •Audit Readiness: Assist in gathering investigation documentation, alert disposition records, and tuning rationale for internal audits, bank partner reviews, and regulatory examinations.
• •Data Management & Reporting:
• •Investigation Integrity: Maintain thorough, audit-ready investigation records with complete evidence chains, ensuring absolute data confidentiality in line with global privacy standards.
• •Metrics & Reporting: Help compile regular reports on alert volumes, disposition rates, true-positive ratios, and investigation turnaround times to assist leadership in capacity planning and program effectiveness assessments.

• •The base pay for this role is expected to be between $111,000 - $140,000 in the New York City Area.
• •This role will also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance linked bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

• •Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Data Science, Criminology, Law, or a related field.
• •Experience: 3–5 years of direct experience in trade surveillance, market abuse investigations within digital assets, fintech, proprietary trading, or brokerage firm.
• •Technical Proficiency: Experience working with surveillance platforms, transaction monitoring systems, and data analysis tools to investigate complex trading behaviors. Demonstrated comfort working with AI-assisted workflows, including LLM-powered investigation tools, prompt-driven analysis, or AI-augmented alert triage — and the critical judgment to identify where AI outputs require human validation or correction.
• •Analytical Mindset: Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to reconstruct trading sequences, identify coordinated activity across accounts, and distinguish legitimate strategies from manipulative conduct.
• •Communication: Crisp verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to document complex investigations clearly and explain market conduct expectations to non-compliance stakeholders.