Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics

Voleon; Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life and AD&D insurance

Paid time off

Sick days

401(k) match

Job summary

The Voleon Group in Berkeley seeks a Software Engineer for Strategy Research Analytics to design and evolve analytics infrastructure for research reporting and analysis across strategies. You will own recurring analytics pipelines and foundational datasets while guiding transition to a standardized, observable analytics platform.

Collaborate with Data Scientists and Data Infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, queryable datasets, impact research velocity, and improve reproducibility across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 3+ years building and operating analytics or data infra systems.
• Strong Python and SQL proficiency.
• Experience with distributed query engines and large-scale compute.
• Ownership of large-scale data infrastructure.
• Strong data modeling, including partitioning and reproducibility.
• Expertise in metadata management and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Own recurring analytics pipelines and ensure reliability (monitoring & alerting).
• Lead architectural evolution of the analytics platform and DAG consolidation.
• Drive cross-team alignment for consistent analytics outputs.
• Build and maintain base analytics tables and metrics with strong schema discipline.
• Define and implement reliability standards (SLOs, observability, runbooks).
• Improve data discoverability via documentation and data contracts.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Metadata management

Data governance

Distributed engines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Slurm

Unix/Linux

Job description

Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics

Location

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Software

Compensation

The listed base salary range for this position is based upon the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits.

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

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.

As a Software Engineer in Strategy Research Analytics, you will lead the design, evolution, and long-term architecture of Voleon’s analytics infrastructure supporting research reporting and analysis across strategies. You will own critical recurring analytics pipelines and foundational datasets, while guiding the transition from fragmented, bespoke workflows toward a standardized, observable, and query-native analytics platform. In addition to hands‑on implementation, you will shape technical direction, establish reliability standards, and drive consolidation efforts that improve consistency, scalability, and reproducibility across research analytics systems.

You’ll collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Researchers, and Data Infrastructure teams to ensure analytics systems run reliably and produce consistent, queryable datasets. This role offers strong technical ownership within a mission‑critical area of the research organization, with meaningful impact on research velocity and insight generation.

Your Team

The Research Analytics team sits within Research Engineering and works closely with Data Scientists and Researchers across all of Voleon's core strategies. We look for brilliant people with a passion for solving problems through innovation and engineering fundamentals. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and efficient implementation. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers recruited from leading technology companies and selected from the sharpest minds at university programs.

The team’s mission is to:

Stabilize existing analytics pipelines to ensure critical data is available for our data scientist and research partners

Implement monitoring/alerting and operational runbooks; participate in incident response and postmortems

Standardize outputs from strategy workflows into a unified analytics schema (tables, metrics definitions, partitioning strategy)

Improve dataset discoverability via documentation, schema contracts, and metadata/lineage primitives

Optimize query performance and cost for distributed engines (Presto/Spark) and columnar formats (Parquet/ORC)

Responsibilities

Own implementation and on-going operation of recurring analytics pipelines (e.g., Airflow DAGs) including monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvements

Lead architectural evolution of the analytics platform, including schema standardization, DAG consolidation, and modernization of legacy workflows

Drive cross-team technical alignment when consolidating duplicated or inconsistent analytics outputs

Build and maintain base analytics tables and metrics with strong schema discipline and reproducible computation

Define and implement reliability standards (SLOs, observability patterns, runbooks) adopted across analytics pipelines

Improve transparency and usability through documentation, discoverability, and clear data contracts

Optimize distributed compute and SQL query performance; design data layouts (partitioning, file sizing) for columnar storage

Mentor engineers through design reviews and raise the bar for operational and modeling rigor

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

3+ years of experience building and operating analytics or data infrastructure systems

Strong proficiency in Python and SQL

Deep experience with distributed query engines and large‑scale compute systems

Demonstrated ownership of large‑scale or mission‑critical data infrastructure

Strong data modeling expertise, including schema design, partitioning strategy, and reproducibility considerations

Expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and applying robust data governance principles

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading architectural migrations or major refactors of data platforms

Familiarity with AWS cloud technologies and on‑prem compute clusters (e.g., Slurm, SSH, Unix)

Exposure to quantitative research or machine learning environments.

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.