Voleon

Member of Research Staff, Reinforcement Learning, Voleon Securities

Berkeley, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 53 days ago

PythonMachine LearningResearch

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.
Voleon Securities is looking to add an experienced and creative reinforcement learning researcher to our growing ML research group.

Develop a rich understanding of Voleon's challenges and methodologies and propose RL research innovations and experiments to build, maintain and optimize the models that govern our trading strategy
Develop, validate, and implement new models in production
Design and conduct experiments to improve simulations and evaluate the success of new models in a live environment
Communicate and collaborate effectively with other Members of Research Staff and Software Engineers at each stage, driving progress towards tangible outcomes
Voleon Securities builds on Voleon's deep real-world experience applying ML to financial markets.
We welcome researchers with both strong theoretical foundations and experience developing and scaling RL in industrial settings.
You will work with a complex and diverse array of datasets to implement and iterate on predictive models.

Ph.D. level coursework is required, and a Ph.D. degree in a relevant field is preferred

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals.
As a Member of Research Staff, you will work at the forefront of modern statistical machine learning.

Founded in 2007 by two leading scientists, Voleon supports a culture of curiosity, collegiality, and creativity.

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.

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