The Voleon Group - Senior Member of Research Staff, Technical Lead (London)

London, England, United Kingdom$15k - $15k4mo ago

In Office Staff EMEA Artificial Intelligence Senior Researcher Tech Lead Team Leadership Coaching Mentoring Risk Management Ollama

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience directing research projects and mentoring colleagues, with a demonstrated ability to balance hands-on individual contributor technical work with team leadership • Experience building and growing research teams in a collaborative environment • Expertise in modern statistical methods, machine learning, and their application • Strong mathematical foundations (evidenced by e.g. publication record, graduate coursework, or competition placement) • Clarity of thought and an ability to communicate complex technical issues simply and unambiguously • Ability to make well-reasoned decisions, to anticipate research outcomes, and to pose and validate hypotheses • Capability to run multiple projects simultaneously and to operate large-scale compute infrastructure • A penchant for prototyping numerical software • Interest in financial applications is essential, but prior finance industry experience is not a prerequisite • Ph.D. level coursework is required, and a Ph.D. degree in a relevant field is preferred • “FRIENDS OF VOLEON” CANDIDATE REFERRAL PROGRAM • If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form https://voleon.com/referrals/ to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program https://voleon.com/assets/Voleon-Referral-Bonus-Program.pdf.

Responsibilities

• Lead and conduct original research on predictive models, novel data sets, risk management, and portfolio optimization • Develop a rich understanding of Voleon's domain, challenges, and methodologies • Define the research agenda of a research team and oversee its execution • Establish and maintain standards of scientific rigor, excellence, expediency, and correctness • Mentor, coach, and provide technical guidance to other Research staff • Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders, facilitate discussions around complex issues • Keep up to date on the latest academic research to identify novel approaches for application to our domain • Collaborate with engineering support teams to deploy successful research projects to production • Contribute to Voleon's efforts to recruit exceptional talent