Who You Are

You are a quantitative thinker who wants to develop further as both a data scientist and an engineer. You are skilled at finding the precise mathematical kernels of real-world problems and want to bring that talent to bear on the business questions facing the world's leading financial services companies. You are excited to apply your existing expertise in fields such as statistics and computer science to solve mission critical problems. You are excited to work at a fast-paced startup where you will have a chance to expand your scientific and engineering skills to new areas. You share Quantifind's commitment to winning together, and are eager to see your coworkers build on the technical foundations you will be creating. You are passionate about maintaining the high scientific and engineering standards required to enable your peers. Above all, you are a curious and independent problem solver who is motivated to find a place where your skills can have real impact.
What You'll Be Doing:

Members of the Data Science team prototype and build complex Machine Learning solutions, improve and refine existing products through data-driven development cycles, and support our customers extract the maximum value out of Quantifind's Graphyte platform through proofs of concepts (POC) and purpose built solutions as necessary. We work closely with the Product Management and Platform teams to anticipate company needs and quickly put state-of-the-art Data Science and AI tools into the hands of end users. As a team member your duties will include:

• Collaborating with fellow team members and key stakeholders, such as, Product Managers, Platform Engineers to explore ideas, test hypotheses, and prototype solutions.
• Working in an agile environment breaking down complex problems into smaller manageable tasks with the help of your teammates and manager.
• Leveraging SQL, Python and PySpark to analyze large unstructured data sets to answer key business questions, inform research directions, or set up modeling tasks.
• Designing, writing, and maintaining ETL pipelines for integrating large and complex datasets.
• Experimenting with novel ways to use existing data-based solutions to support customers' unique challenges.
• Training machine learning models to solve complex problems.
• Implementing Data Science solutions in our Production Scala codebase following software engineering best practices.
• Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to scale up various data science tasks (for example: data labeling, extracting structured information, ...)
• Participating in code reviews.

What A Great Candidate Looks Like:

• MS or higher in the following areas: Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science
• At least 1 year of professional industry experience, in addition to your academic experience
• Outstanding analytical skills and the ability to communicate quantitative results to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong knowledge of Statistics/Probability/Machine Learning including core concepts of hypothesis testing, inference, bias-variance trade-off, regularization, dimensionality reduction etc.
• Experience using supervised and unsupervised statistical techniques such as regression, classification, and clustering
• Experience with popular machine learning algorithms such as random forests, Boosting, and neural networks
• Experience with Applied NLP methods is a strong plus, including topic modeling, text classification, word embeddings, and named entity extraction
• Strong programming experience in Python and one or more of the following: Scala/Java or R
• Experience with SQL and/or Spark
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithm complexity

The Opportunity We Offer

Quantifind is seeking to fill an Associate Data Scientist position on our Data Science team in Palo Alto, California. Our development team is centered here in Palo Alto, and we have technology hubs in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Washington, D.C. We are currently using a hybrid mix of working from home and in the office.
A highlight of our benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Company Equity
• Exceptional benefits package
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off
• Employer-matched 401(k) plan
• A fun environment where work-life balance is valued
• Lunch provided for employees in the Palo Alto office

The base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$130,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, and the range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location, role-related knowledge and skills, depth of experience, relevant education or training, and additional role-related considerations.

Will you join us? Apply now!