The Voleon Group
Member of Research Staff, Voleon Securities
$225K–$250K
New York City, NY +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 17, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY
Berkeley, CA - Education
- Ph.D.-level coursework required; a Ph.D. degree in a relevant field is preferred.
About the job
Conduct applied research in financial market prediction and portfolio optimization, developing and validating models for production and live trading.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize models used in trading strategies; prepare and analyze datasets for predictive value.
- Develop, validate, and implement models in production; design experiments to evaluate model performance in simulations and live trading.
- Collaborate with research and software engineering colleagues, and track academic research for applicable methods.
What they ask for
- Applied research background in modern statistical methods and machine learning.
- Strong mathematical ability and ability to solve large-scale computing problems.
- Interest in software development and willingness to write production-level Python code.
- Ph.D.-level coursework required; interest in financial applications is essential.
Nice to have
- Practical experience in optimal control, deep RL, deep learning, or causal inference.
- Relevant Ph.D. degree; experience building liquidity-provision strategies across asset classes is preferred but not required.
Pay
$225K – $250K USD base salary; bonus amount not stated
Tools
Python
AI focus
Apply AI/ML and statistical machine learning to financial market prediction, portfolio optimization, and liquidity-provision strategies.
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