The Voleon Group

Data Scientist

The Voleon Group$100K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1+ years of hands-on experience with complex datasets, including data curation and analysis.
  • Knowledge of statistical methods for data analysis and insight generation.
  • Strong mathematical framing and question-answering ability.
  • Proficient at making predictions based on retrospective analysis.
  • Expertise in SQL, Pandas, and R for managing and visualizing data.
  • Basic software development skills with experience in bash, linux/unix, and git.
  • Strong communication skills to interpret ambiguous requests.
  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement systems for data correctness and health monitoring.
  • Identify and clearly communicate abnormal behavior in data production.
  • Conduct analyses on research and production trading systems with leaders.
  • Apply financial expertise and statistics to derive insights for trading and research.
  • Create automated analysis pipelines for ongoing operational monitoring.

Benefits

  • Participation in the 'Friends of Voleon' referral program.
  • Opportunity to earn $7,500 for successful candidate referrals.
Full Job Description
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 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


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 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 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 to produce reports demonstrating excellence in communication
  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, biostatistics, data science, computer science, or a related field)


Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's degree in a quantitative discipline
  • 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


"Friends of Voleon" Candidate Referral Program

If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $7,500 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.

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About The Voleon Group

The Voleon Group is a quantitative investment management firm that uses advanced mathematical and statistical techniques to identify and exploit market inefficiencies. The company was founded in 2007 by Michael Kharitonov and Jon McAuliffe and is based in San Francisco, California. Voleon's investment strategies are based on machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the company has a team of over 200 researchers and engineers working to develop and improve its algorithms. Voleon manages several funds, including a long/short equity fund and a futures fund, and has a strong track record of performance. The company is known for its rigorous approach to research and its commitment to transparency and ethical behavior.
Learn more about The Voleon Group
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2007

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