Compliance Associate, Market Surveillance

As a Compliance Associate for Market Surveillance at FalconX, you join our Compliance team to maintain the integrity of our trading platform and digital asset markets. You will independently investigate trade surveillance alerts, assist with token and asset due diligence, and contribute to the ongoing development of our surveillance program. Working at the intersection of compliance, data, AI, and market structure, you will leverage both vendor-based and FalconX's internal surveillance tooling to detect manipulation, monitor market conduct, and ensure our platform meets the highest regulatory standards across the jurisdictions in which we operate.

What you'll do

• Independently review, investigate, and disposition trade surveillance alerts across digital asset markets, including potential wash trading, spoofing, layering, front-running, and insider trading.
• Analyze trading activity across order books, execution venues, and counterparties to identify manipulative patterns, anomalous behaviors, and coordinated trading schemes in spot, spot-related derivatives markets, and tokenized real-world assets and their derivative markets.
• Identify regulatory red flags and suspicious trading patterns, and prepare comprehensive investigative narratives with supporting evidence to escalate to the Compliance Manager.
• Conduct thorough due diligence on tokens and digital assets prior to onboarding, evaluating tokenomics, liquidity profiles, smart contract risk, governance structures, and issuer background.
• Continuously assess listed assets for material changes such as 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.
• Contribute to internal frameworks for assessing asset-level manipulation risk, incorporating on-chain analytics, order book health metrics, and cross-venue liquidity indicators.
• Leverage AI-assisted surveillance tooling to investigate alerts and surface risk patterns, and contribute real-world feedback on model outputs, prompt effectiveness, and detection gaps to improve the accuracy and utility of FalconX's surveillance capabilities.
• Partner with Engineering and Data teams to enhance surveillance platform capabilities, contributing use-case requirements, testing detection scenarios, and validating model outputs.
• 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.
• Partner with the Compliance Manager to update surveillance procedures, detection playbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) as regulations and market structures evolve.
• Assist in gathering investigation documentation, alert disposition records, and tuning rationale for internal audits, bank partner reviews, and regulatory examinations.
• Maintain thorough, audit-ready investigation records with complete evidence chains, ensuring absolute data confidentiality in line with global privacy standards.
• 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.

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Data Science, Criminology, Law, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of direct experience in trade surveillance, market abuse investigations within digital assets, fintech, proprietary trading, or brokerage firms.
• 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.
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to reconstruct trading sequences, identify coordinated activity across accounts, and distinguish legitimate strategies from manipulative conduct.
• Crisp verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to document complex investigations clearly and explain market conduct expectations to non-compliance stakeholders.

What we offer

• Base pay of $111,000–$140,000 in the New York City Area.
• Performance-linked bonus.
• Equity.
• A competitive benefits package.

About FalconX

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 serves as a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies, acting as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the cryptocurrency landscape.