Finance AI/ML Data Scientist - Hybrid

Voleon; Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Life and AD&D insurance

20 days PTO

401(k) with company match

Daily catered lunches

Job summary

Voleon, a leading AI-driven research firm, seeks a Data Scientist to harvest insights from complex data, curate and analyze data, and communicate findings to the research staff and leadership.

You will work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with researchers and finance/tech professionals while applying statistics, SQL, Python (Pandas) and R to real-world data challenges. The position offers competitive compensation and a full benefits package.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of end-to-end industry data science experience.
• Experience using statistical methods to analyze data, identify patterns, and derive insights.
• Ability to frame and answer questions mathematically.
• Ability to infer useful forward-looking directions from retrospective analyses.
• Fluency in managing, processing, and visualizing tabular data using SQL, Pandas, and R.
• Basic software development skills with Bash, Linux/Unix, and Git.
• Ability to refine requirements from ambiguous requests to produce reports.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, biostatistics, data science, CS, or related).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data systems to ensure data correctness and monitor health across data stores and feeds.
• Proactively identify abnormal production behavior and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Perform extemporaneous analyses on research and production trading systems with leadership.
• Apply financial and statistical analysis to extract insights for production trading and research.
• Design and implement analysis pipelines to automate valuable monitoring analyses.

Skills

SQL

Pandas

R

Data visualization

Statistics

Data processing

Bash

Linux

Git

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

Airflow

CI/CD

Job description

Voleon, a leading AI-driven research firm, seeks a Data Scientist to harvest insights from complex data, curate and analyze data, and communicate findings to the research staff and leadership.

You will work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with researchers and finance/tech professionals while applying statistics, SQL, Python (Pandas) and R to real-world data challenges. The position offers competitive compensation and a full benefits package.