Voleon
Senior Research Engineer - Voleon Securities
New York City, NY · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 75 days ago
PythonGoC++PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBCassandraDynamoDBSQLiteRESTgRPCMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchData EngineeringResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- Voleon Securities, a new business within the Voleon Group, provides liquidity in securities markets.
- We apply state-of-the-art AI/ML techniques to construct our liquidity-provision strategies.
- You will work closely with both researchers on the team and engineers who oversee our trading execution system.
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize ML driven research infrastructure (Python, Pytorch, Jax)
- Develop tooling to integrate data from diverse exchanges and sources
- Collaborate with external engineering support teams at Voleon, including the trading execution team
- Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company
- Voleon Securities builds on Voleon's deep real-world experience applying ML to financial markets.
- As a Senior Research Engineer embedded within our first quant strategy team, you will own the team's research infrastructure and overnight pipelines.
- This role has the potential to become a lead research engineer across Voleon Securities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in backend systems, distributed computing, or data infrastructure
- Experience in programming languages such as Python, Go, and C++
- Understanding of database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, SQLite, DuckDB or MongoDB) and experience with APIs (REST/gRPC)
- ability to work closely with both engineering and research teams
Nice to have
- Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on highly available systems
- Experience leading cross team collaborations or working cross functionally
- "FRIENDS OF VOLEON" CANDIDATE REFERRAL PROGRAM
Benefits
- Optimize training and inference for machine learning models (Pytorch, Jax)
- Deploy machine learning models from research into production
- You and your team will collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers.
Equal opportunity
- 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.
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- ational 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
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