Full-Time Data Scientist

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance.

We've become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for harvesting insights from a complex array of data. Your role will involve data curation, analysis, interpretation, visualization, and communication of your findings to members of the research staff and executive leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement systems to ensure data correctness and monitor data health in data stores and live feeds
• Proactively identify abnormal production behavior and communicate them clearly to relevant stakeholders
• Perform extemporaneous analyses on research and production trading systems with leadership
• Harness financial expertise and statistical analysis to gain actionable insights into our production trading and research systems
• Design and implement analysis pipelines that automate those analyses found to be valuable for ongoing monitoring

Requirements:

• 1+ years of applied end-to-end industry experience, including internships working with complex datasets, including curation, querying, aggregation, exploratory data analysis, and visualization
• Experience using statistical methods to analyze data, identify patterns, conduct root cause analysis, discover insights, and recommend solutions
• Ability to frame and answer questions mathematically
• Ability to infer useful forward-looking directions from results of retrospective analysis
• Fluency in managing, processing, and visualizing tabular data using a combination of SQL, Pandas, and R
• Basic software development skills and experience with bash, linux/unix, and git
• Ability to refine requirements from ambiguous requests to produce reports demonstrating excellence in communication
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, biostatistics, data science, computer science, or a related field)

Preferred:

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline
• Prior industry experience or displayed interest in finance, such as related academic projects, coursework in financial engineering, or industry internships
• Experience developing in a production-facing environment and familiarity with standard concepts and tooling, e.g., CI/CD, git, Airflow

Compensation:

The base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $190,000. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Voleon is an Equal Opportunity employer.

Vaccination Requirement

Voleon has implemented a policy requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine.

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