Data Scientist, Trading Operations

Quant Blueprint LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Daily catered lunches

Technology talks by experts

Job summary

Voleon, based in Boston, is seeking a Data Scientist to join their Quantitative Trading Strategy team. You will harvest insights from complex data, focusing on machine learning, and optimize portfolio financing.

This role requires strong skills in data analysis and visualization. You will collaborate with experts and help shape investment strategies with your findings. A competitive compensation package is offered alongside a vibrant working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with data curation and analysis.
• Proven ability to visualize data and communicate findings.
• Strong understanding of machine-learning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Harvest insights from complex data sets.
• Build and maintain data pipelines.
• Optimize portfolio financing and execution algorithms.

Skills

Data analysis

Machine learning

Data visualization

Statistical analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree in Data Science or related field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Job description

Voleon is a technology company that applies state‑of‑the‑art machine‑learning techniques to real‑world problems in finance. For over a decade, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying machine‑learning to investment management. We have become a multibillion‑dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in machine‑learning research as well as highly experienced technology and finance professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

The Voleon Group has formed a new team to help advance our data‑driven investment initiatives. 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. This role is a means to make a difference: as a machine‑learning company, data insights are essential to our business.

As a Data Scientist in Trading Operations, you will be embedded in the Quantitative Trading Strategy team. The team focuses on domain‑heavy technical work, such as tuning execution algorithms and optimizing portfolio financing. You will build, maintain, and analyze data pipelines to generate insight consumed by the whole team. You will work at the intersection of trading and research on problems requiring market domain expertise and statistical and quantitative rigor.