Senior Data Scientist

7 days ago

Berkeley, California, United States The Voleon Group Full time

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine-learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. We have led our industry for over a decade and worked at the frontier of applying machine learning 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 machine learning research as well as highly experienced technology and finance professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performance, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

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.

Over the last few years, the Voleon Group has formed a new team to help advance our data-driven investment initiatives. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be responsible for harvesting insights from a complex array of data and guiding the efforts of a team of Data Scientists doing the same. Your role will involve designing systems and directing technical efforts in data curation, analysis, interpretation, and visualization, as well as communicating 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.

Founded in 2007 by two leading scientists (see management bios), Voleon supports a culture of curiosity and creativity. We do not silo our teams, and you will enjoy a healthy work-life balance while tackling complex problems in a collegial environment. This role makes a difference: as a machine learning company, data insights are essential to our business.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical efforts of a team of Data Scientists (DS)
  • Work closely with Technical Product Owners to prioritize high-level needs around analytics and insight extraction, proceeding autonomously with implementation details
  • Proactively identify abnormal production behavior, directing DS team members to investigate and rationalize this behavior, and then communicate results clearly to relevant stakeholders
  • Design analysis pipelines that automate those analyses found to be valuable for ongoing monitoring, overseeing their implementation, and successful deployment
  • Cultivate in the DS team some expertise in financial and statistical analysis to gain actionable insights into our production trading and research systems

Requirements

  • 2+ years of applied end-to-end industry experience, including internships working with complex datasets, including curation, querying, aggregation, exploratory data analysis, and visualization
  • Experience in leading the efforts of a team of technical contributors
  • Experience using statistical methods to analyze data, identify patterns, conduct root cause analysis, discover insights, and recommend solutions
  • Ability to frame and answer questions quantitatively
  • 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 tooling skills, including bash, 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

  • Master's degree or Ph.D. 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 $190,000 to $230,000 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, nine 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 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.

Vaccination Requirement

The Voleon Group has implemented a policy requiring all employees who will be entering our worksite, including new hires, to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine. This policy also applies to remote employees, who will be asked to visit our offices from time to time. To the extent permitted by applicable law, proof of vaccination will be required as a condition of employment. This policy is part of Voleon's ongoing efforts to ensure our employees' and community's safety and well-being, and to support public health efforts.

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