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Senior Member of Research Staff (New York)

Voleon Group, LLC

Job Overview

Location

New York

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end research lifecycle for high-impact predictive models that direct billions of dollars in daily trading decisions, translating cutting-edge machine-learning theory into production-grade systems that generate measurable alpha.
• Provide strategic leadership across multiple mission-critical trading systems, scoping multi-quarter research roadmaps, balancing risk-adjusted return objectives with computational constraints, and ensuring every experiment is designed to yield statistically significant, domain-relevant insights.
• Architect and curate novel datasets drawn from global markets, alternative data vendors, and proprietary feeds; engineer robust pipelines that cleanse, normalize, and enrich terabytes of heterogeneous information while preserving predictive signal integrity.
• Rapidly prototype, validate, and iterate on statistical and deep-learning models—ranging from Bayesian non-parametric methods to transformer architectures—then shepherd the strongest candidates through rigorous back-testing, paper-trading, and live A/B experiments.
• Design large-scale simulation frameworks that mirror real-world market micro-structure, latency profiles, and transaction-cost dynamics, enabling accurate pre-deployment estimation of strategy capacity, slippage, and tail-risk exposure.
• Collaborate daily with portfolio construction, execution, and infrastructure teams to translate research outputs into actionable portfolio weights, risk limits, and automated hedging rules, ensuring seamless integration with low-latency C++/Python production stacks.
• Serve as a thought leader and external spokesperson, publishing selective findings at top-tier ML and finance conferences, presenting at academic seminars, and attracting world-class talent through open-source contributions and university partnerships.
• Mentor a diverse cohort of researchers and engineers, delivering tailored technical guidance, code reviews, and career coaching that accelerate individual growth while elevating the collective scientific bar of the organization.
• Maintain a living map of the evolving academic landscape—tracking advances in causal inference, reinforcement learning, and probabilistic programming—and rapidly prototype promising techniques to determine their suitability for noisy, non-stationary financial data.
• Influence cross-functional priorities without formal authority, distilling complex statistical trade-offs into clear narratives that secure buy-in from executives, traders, and technologists alike.
• Uphold a culture of reproducible research by authoring concise, insightful documentation, enforcing rigorous experiment tracking, and championing software engineering best practices that safeguard intellectual property and regulatory compliance.
• Contribute to Voleon’s strategic talent acquisition efforts by conducting technical interviews, designing challenging take-home assessments, and evangelizing the firm’s unique research culture at campus events and industry meetups.

🎯 Requirements

• PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline
• Proven track record of designing and deploying machine-learning models that demonstrably improve predictive accuracy in noisy, non-stationary environments
• Expert-level fluency in Python and C++ for both research prototyping and high-performance production code
• Deep understanding of statistical inference, time-series analysis, and large-scale data engineering
• Nice-to-have: peer-reviewed publications or patents in machine learning, quantitative finance, or related fields

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to direct billions of dollars in daily trading decisions and see your research generate measurable alpha in real time
• Collaborative, flat-structured environment where strategic influence is earned through technical excellence rather than hierarchy
• Active support for publishing at top-tier ML and finance conferences, plus dedicated time for open-source contributions and academic partnerships
• Comprehensive mentorship program pairing you with world-class researchers and engineers to accelerate both technical and leadership growth

Skills & Technologies

Python

Senior

Onsite

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About Voleon Group, LLC

Voleon Group, LLC is a quantitative investment management firm headquartered in Berkeley, California. Founded in 2007, it applies machine-learning algorithms and large-scale data analysis to trade global equities and related derivatives, managing institutional capital on behalf of pensions, endowments, and other sophisticated investors. The firm emphasizes systematic, research-driven strategies and maintains a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and finance professionals.

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