Data Scientist (Remote)

Position Overview

• Location Type: [Not Specified]
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: $150,000 - $190,000

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For over a decade, Voleon has led its industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management, becoming a multibillion-dollar asset manager with ambitious future goals. Colleagues include internationally recognized experts in AI and machine learning research, as well as experienced finance and technology professionals. Voleon offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package, technology talks by experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

The Voleon Group is forming a new team to advance 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 findings to research staff and executive leadership. Data insights are essential to Voleon's business as a machine learning company.

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 production trading and research systems.
• Design and implement analysis pipelines that automate 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.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base Salary: $150,000 - $190,000 (based on factors including education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography).
• Benefits Package: 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.
• Additional Perks: Technology talks by experts, beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches.

Referral Program

• “Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program: Potential to earn $7,500 if a referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon.