Data Scientist (USA-Remote)

Voleon; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Voleon is seeking a Data Scientist to harvest insights from diverse data sources and communicate findings to researchers and executives. You will build data-driven solutions spanning data curation, analysis, interpretation, and visualization to support investment decisions.

Responsibilities include designing data systems, monitoring data health, identifying abnormal production behavior, and developing scalable analysis pipelines for ongoing monitoring and trading research.

Qualifications

• 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 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)

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

Skills

SQL

Pandas

R

Statistical analysis

Data visualization

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

Airflow

Git

bash

Linux/Unix

Job description

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML 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 artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. 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 is forming 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.

Responsibilities

Design and implement systems to ensure data correctness and monitor data healthin data stores and live feeds

Proactively identify abnormalproductionbehavior and communicate them clearly to relevant stakeholders

Performextemporaneousanalyseson 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 methodsto analyze data,identify patterns, conduct root cause analysis, discover insights, and recommend solutions

Ability toframe and answerquestions mathematically

Ability to infer useful forward-looking directions from results of retrospective analysis

Fluency in managing, processing, and visualizing tabular datausing 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 toproduce reports demonstrating excellence in communication

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, biostatistics, data science, computer science, or a related field)

Preferred Qualifications

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

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Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.