Remote Data Scientist (USA-Remote)

Description:

• Voleon is a technology company that applies AI and machine learning techniques to finance problems.
• The company has been a leader in applying AI/ML to investment management for over a decade and has become a multibillion-dollar asset manager.
• The Data Scientist will join a new team focused on advancing data-driven investment initiatives.
• Responsibilities include harvesting insights from complex data, data curation, analysis, interpretation, visualization, and communication of findings to research staff and executive leadership.
• The role involves designing and implementing systems to ensure data correctness and monitoring data health in data stores and live feeds.
• The Data Scientist will proactively identify abnormal production behavior and communicate them to relevant stakeholders.
• The position requires performing analyses on research and production trading systems and harnessing financial expertise and statistical analysis for actionable insights.
• The Data Scientist will also design and implement analysis pipelines to automate valuable analyses for ongoing monitoring.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 1+ years of applied end-to-end industry experience, including internships, working with complex datasets.
• Experience with data curation, querying, aggregation, exploratory data analysis, and visualization is required.
• Proficiency in using statistical methods to analyze data, identify patterns, conduct root cause analysis, and recommend solutions is necessary.
• The candidate must have the ability to frame and answer questions mathematically and infer useful forward-looking directions from retrospective analysis results.
• Fluency in managing, processing, and visualizing tabular data using SQL, Pandas, and R is essential.
• Basic software development skills and experience with bash, Linux/Unix, and git are required.
• The ability to refine requirements from ambiguous requests to produce clear reports demonstrating excellent communication is necessary.
• A Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, biostatistics, data science, computer science, or a related field is required.

Benefits:

• The base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $190,000, determined by factors such as education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.
• The 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.
• Voleon offers a "Friends of Voleon" Candidate Referral Program, allowing individuals to earn $7,500 for successful candidate referrals.
• The company is an Equal Opportunity employer, considering applicants without regard to various factors prohibited by law.
• A vaccination policy requires all employees, including remote workers, to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment.