The Voleon Group

Data Scientist, Trading Operations

Reposted 21 Days Ago

Berkeley, CA

Hybrid

150K-190K

Junior

Financial Services

The Role

As a Data Scientist in Trading Operations, you will analyze complex datasets, develop data pipelines, and communicate insights to enhance trading strategies.

Summary Generated by Built In

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.

The Voleon Group has formed 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.

As a Data Scientist in Trading Operations, you will be embedded in the Quantitative Trading Strategy team. The team focuses on domain-heavy technical work, such as tuning execution algorithms and optimizing portfolio financing. You will build, maintain, and analyze data pipelines to generate insight consumed by the whole team. You will work at the intersection of trading and research on problems requiring market domain expertise and statistical and quantitative rigor.

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
Excellent communication skills
Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, biostatistics, data science, computer science, or a related field)

Preferred

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

The base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $190,000 in 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.

“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.

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.

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Top Skills

Airflow

Bash

Ci/Cd

Git

Linux/Unix

Pandas

SQL

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The Company

HQ: Berkeley, CA

169 Employees

Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

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.