Data Scientist - Voleon Securities (New York)
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Summary
About the Role
About You
- 1+ years of applied end-to-end industry experience 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, and recommend solutions.
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, biostatistics, data science, computer science, or a related field).
- 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.
- Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
- Prior industry experience or interest in finance, such as related academic projects or coursework in financial engineering.
- Experience developing in a production-facing environment and familiarity with CI/CD, git, and Airflow.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Life and AD&D insurance.
- 20 days of paid time off.
- 9 sick days.
- 401(k) plan with a company match.
Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning. The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines. Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility. 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.