The Voleon Group

Senior Research Engineer - Voleon Securities

Reposted 15 Days Ago

2 Locations

Hybrid

225K-310K Annually

Senior level

Financial Services

The Role

As a Senior Research Engineer, you will optimize ML infrastructure, develop data pipelines, deploy ML models, and mentor team members.

Summary Generated by Built In

Voleon Securities is an early-stage market maker spun off from Voleon Capital Management. We apply state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance, with a focus on market making / liquidity provision. For more than a decade, our affiliate Voleon Capital Management has led the hedge fund industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management, becoming a multibillion-dollar asset manager. Voleon Securities is leveraging Voleon’s deep real-world experience in applying ML to financial markets with a goal to become one of the most profitable market makers on the street.

As a Senior Research Engineer embedded within our first quant strategy team, you will own the team’s research infrastructure and overnight pipelines. You will work closely with both researchers on the team and engineers who oversee our trading execution system. You will be expected to help optimize machine learning training and testing environments, architect and maintain data pipelines and job graphs, and help deploy new machine learning driven market making strategies to production. This role has the potential to become a lead research engineer across Voleon Securities.

Your Team

We look for responsible people with a passion for solving problems. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and efficient implementation. We embrace experimentation. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers recruited from leading technology companies and universities. You and your team will collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers.

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize ML driven research infrastructure (Python, Pytorch, Jax)
Optimize training and inference for machine learning models (Pytorch, Jax)
Deploy machine learning models from research into production
Develop tooling to integrate data from diverse exchanges and sources
Improve the resilience and performance of our trading systems
Collaborate with external engineering support teams at Voleon, including the trading execution team
Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in backend systems, distributed computing, or data infrastructure
Experience in programming languages such as Python, Go, and C++
Understanding of database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, SQLite, DuckDB or MongoDB) and experience with APIs (REST/gRPC)
Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented solutions
Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work closely with both engineering and research teams

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise in building and optimizing data pipelines
Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on highly available systems
Expertise implementing deep learning and RL frameworks in Pytorch or Jax
Experience optimizing research infrastructure and providing engineering support to researchers
Experience building a quantitative market-making strategy
Experience bringing machine learning models into production
Experience leading cross team collaborations or working cross functionally

The base salary range for this position is $225,000 to $310,000 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 $15,000 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.

Top Skills

C++

Cassandra

Duckdb

DynamoDB

Grpc

Jax

MongoDB

MySQL

Postgres

Python

PyTorch

Rest

Sqlite

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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.