Cubist Data Scientist
About the job
- Masters in Financial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other disciplines involving rigorous quantitative analysis
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience working with AWS, Linux and Airflow preferred but not required
- Financial industry experience preferred but not required
- Strong organization, communication and interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail and a love of processes
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to exercise sound judgment in assessing and determining how to handle queries, calls and issues
- Ability to multitask and prioritize assignments
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
- Onboarding novel datasets from a huge variety of sources into our platform
- Develop, test and deploy data pipelines, applications and services
- Re-shaping, aggregating, enhancing and creating features from datasets
- Engaging with vendors and internal stakeholders to understand characteristics of datasets
- Defining and automating qualitative data alerts and reports
- Partnering closely with investment teams to ensure their data requirements are met
- Perform preliminary analysis and research to be shared with investment teams
About the company
Point72 is a global asset management firm offering discretionary long/short equity, systematic, and macro investing, with a growing private markets portfolio. Its products combine active fund management with model-driven approaches across assets and geographies, earning money through management fees and performance-based incentives. The firm differentiates itself through a mix of discretionary trading, systematic methods, macro-focused strategies, a global footprint, and a commitment to ESG practices under Steven A. Cohen. Its goal is to generate superior returns for clients, grow assets, and maintain a culture centered on excellence and continuous learning.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Private
Total Funding
$10.3B
Headquarters
Stamford, Connecticut
Founded
2014
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What believers are saying
- Point72 plans to double Japan headcount and capital allocation within a few years.
- September 2026 hiring remains broad: quantitative, macro, and graduate roles in New York and Tokyo.
- Point72 joined SiMa.ai's $150 million Series C, expanding private-market exposure and AI optionality.
What critics are saying
- Point72 triples hedge-fund redemption times next year, signaling tighter liquidity and client friction.
- Japan hiring faces Brevan Howard and Marshall Wace, inflating pay and poaching risks in 2026.
- Cohen succession risk is existential; any abrupt exit would destabilize fundraising and retention.
What makes Point72 unique
- Steven Cohen still leads Point72, managing $58.5 billion as of July 1, 2026.
- Tokyo says fundamental equities is Point72's largest strategy by headcount and allocation.
- Point72 combines discretionary, macro, and quant teams across global offices and year-round hiring.
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Benefits
Fully-paid health care benefits
Generous parental and family leave policies
Mental and physical wellness programs
Volunteer opportunities
Non-profit matching gift program
Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
Tuition assistance
A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more
Company News
AI firms Modal Labs, Instinct and SiMa.ai secure $750m, $1bn and $150m rounds. Recent funding rounds saw Modal Labs raise $750 million, Instinct $1 billion and SiMa.ai $150 million, while robotics and biotech startups also secured sizable investments. Artificial intelligence. Modal Labs, the New York-based serverless AI inference platform founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna, is close to completing a $750 million financing led by Accel that would lift its post-money valuation to about $15.75 billion, up from $4.65 billion after its May 2026 Series C [1][6]. The round, reported at a valuation near $16 billion in other outlets, more than triples the company's worth in four months and follows revenue growth to over $300 million annualised as of May 2026 [4]. Modal's service lets developers run Python functions and AI workloads on GPUs and CPUs across multiple clouds without managing servers, counting customers such as Cognition, Suno, Ramp and Substack among its roughly 150-person workforce [1]. Edge-AI chipmaker SiMa.ai closed a $150 million Series C at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Fidelity Management & Research and Amplify Partners, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, Point72, StepStone Group and several other investors [3][8]. The company, founded in 2018 by former Xilinx executive Krishna Rangasayee, reported a four-fold revenue increase from 2024 to 2025 and is now scaling its second-generation Modalix chip and the Palette Neat software environment for drones, humanoid robots and automotive applications. Funds will be used to bring a next-generation hardware design delivering 1,000 dense TOPS to market in early 2028 and to expand the open-source software stack that lets developers specify speed, power and accuracy constraints. SiMa.ai positions its pin-compatible module as a drop-in alternative to Nvidia's Jetson line, aiming to capture a share of the projected $50 trillion physical-AI market. Robotics. Feather Robotics raised $7.6 million in a pre-seed SAFE round led by Gradient Ventures, with participation from Builder Capital, Geometry, Virgo VC and London-listed SEED Innovations, whose earlier $1 million investment converts at a $60 million valuation cap [2]. The East Palo Alto startup offers a modular humanoid platform priced at $29,990, paired with an SDK that lets developers load any AI model, and has already generated over $1 million in revenue from manufacturing and food-service customers. Feather's rapid development cycle - first prototype in two months and first shipped unit in nine - aims to establish an open hardware standard for physical-intelligence robots, positioning the company against vertically integrated rivals such as Tesla and Figure AI. India-based Unbox Robotics secured $28 million in a mixed primary-secondary round led by ICICI Venture, with participation from RedStart Labs, F-Prime, 3one4 Capital, Navam Capital, Force Ventures and existing backers [5]. The funding will expand the engineering team, accelerate product development and broaden market reach in India and overseas, while part of the secondary capital provides liquidity to employees. Unbox builds modular, AI-driven mobile robots for parcel and package sorting, deploying around 500 units across Europe and preparing its first large-scale U.S. rollout with a third-party logistics provider. The company's swarm-intelligence software enables coordinated robot fleets, and it pursues additional opportunities in pharma manufacturing. Humanoid-robot specialist Figure AI, valued at $39 billion after its September 2025 Series C, reported that its robot headcount surpassed its human staff for the first time in June 2026, with roughly 740 Figure units deployed against about 660 employees [7]. The firm's flagship Figure 03, launched in October 2025, is a 5-foot-8, 135-pound biped equipped with the in-house Helix vision-language-action model and is currently used in BMW's Spartanburg plant for vehicle assembly. Figure generates revenue through a robot-as-a-service model priced around $3,200 per robot per month and bulk purchases near $89,000 per unit, though exact figures are undisclosed. Investors in the latest round include Parkway Venture Capital, Brookfield, Nvidia, Qualcomm Ventures and other strategic capital partners.
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Some top Squarepoint traders joined big funds. Now they're leaving again. 2 hours ago Squarepoint, the quantitative hedge fund, is sometimes compared to Qube Research and Technologies. Both are run by the French. Both spun out of banks. Based on our admittedly partial visibility, though, it seems that people might leave Squarepoint more frequently. Squarepoint's past departures include Nathan Benabou, a top quant portfolio manager (PMs) who left in 2021 and joined Point72 in Dubai, and Khalil Bouchareb, one of Squarepoint's top PMs, who went to Millennium in early 2025. We understand that Benabou has left Point72 and is enroute elsewhere. Some members of his seven person team are understood to have left too, although some have been redeployed at Point72. Similarly, we understand that Khalil Bouchareb will be leaving Millennium along with Antoine Le Calvez, a quant researcher who also formerly worked for Squarepoint. Bouchareb's intention is unclear; it's understood that he's still at Millennium at the moment. Point72 and Millennium declined to comment. Benabou didn't respond to a request to comment. Benhamou is thought to have been among the top performers at Cubist, Point72's systematic investing business. Cubist has been through a few changes. In late 2025, Point72 hired Geoffrey Lauprete, the former CIO of WorldQuant to run Cubist, thereby displacing Denis Dancanet. It's thought that Dancanet hired Benabou. Issam Bazzi, another senior quant on the team, was reported to leave in March. Lauprete has been hiring his own people to Cubist, including - most recently - John Koehl from Balyasny. Benabou's departure may have been prompted by these changes. Meanwhile, Squarepoint itself has been doing some hiring. Recent recruits to its team include macro portfolio manager Mark Orsley in New York (ex-BlueCrest) and Priyanka Chatterjee (ex-Verition). Squarepoint didn't respond to a request to comment. Follow me on X. Follow me on LinkedIn. Have a confidential story, tip, or comment you'd like to share? Contact: +44 7537 182250 (SMS, Whatsapp or voicemail). Telegram: @SarahButcher. Signal: sarahbutcher.22 Click here to fill in our anonymous form, or email [email protected]. Bear with us if you leave a comment at the bottom of this article: comments are moderated intermittently by human beings. Sometimes these humans might be asleep, or away from their desks, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You must take sole responsibility for comments you post on this site. We will take reasonable steps to weed out anything that we consider to be offensive or inappropriate. The essential daily roundup of news and analysis read by everyone from senior bankers and traders to new recruits. Boost your career. Find thousands of job opportunities by signing up to eFinancialCareers today. Top Articles
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Point72 Asset Management plans to expand its Japan headcount and capital allocation in the coming years, according to Bloomberg. Japan head Shinji Ogawa cited corporate governance reforms prompting companies to reevaluate capital allocation, creating attractive investment opportunities. The firm is hiring in fundamental research, macro strategy and quantitative analysis. The Tokyo office has added an internal trainer and recruiter for its graduate programme amid fierce competition for staff. Point72, founded by billionaire Steve Cohen, managed $58.5 billion as of July and established its Japan office in 2011. Other hedge funds including Brevan Howard and Marshall Wace are also expanding their Japan presence, with Brevan Howard launching an office this year.