Data Scientist

The Voleon Group is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for harvesting insights from complex data, involving data curation, analysis, interpretation, visualization, and communication of findings to research staff and executive leadership.

What you'll do:

• 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

What they're looking for:

• 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)
• 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

Benefits:

• We offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages
• Technology talks by our experts
• A beautiful modern office
• Daily catered lunches
• HYBRID
• Workplace_type: Hybrid
• Friends of Voleon Candidate Referral Program: potential to earn $7,500 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group