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The Voleon Group

Runs machine-learning hedge funds for institutions

Data Scientist

Data SciencePosted on Aug 4, 2023
Full-timeBerkeley, CA, USANo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

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)

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

Desired 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

About the Company

The Voleon Group

Runs machine-learning hedge funds for institutions

The Voleon Group runs hedge funds for institutions such as pension plans and sovereign wealth funds, using machine-learning models instead of human judgment to choose every trade. It began live trading in 2008 as one of the early hedge funds to hand all of its trading decisions to machine-learning models. Those models comb through years of price and trading data for patterns that predict market moves, then trade automatically in stocks, bonds, futures, currencies and derivatives. Voleon earns management fees plus a share of the gains it makes for investors. A computer scientist and a statistician founded Voleon in 2007, and it is based in Berkeley, California, near the University of California campus.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Berkeley, CA
Founded
2007

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