Voleon Securities
FinTech
MemberofResearchStaff,ReinforcementLearning
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“Member of Research Staff, Reinforcement Learning at Voleon Securities. Skills: Reinforcement Learning, AI/ML, Financial Markets. Develop understanding of Voleon's challenges. Propose RL research innovations”
What You'll Achieve.
Validate efficacy in live trading
Industry & Context.
Solve large-scale computing problems
Relocation eligibility, Work visa eligibility
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Background in reinforcement learning, Track record of publishing RL papers, Evidence of mathematical abilities, Interest in software development, Willingness to write production code, Ability to solve large-scale computing problems, Ph. D. level coursework required
Nice to Have
Ph. D. degree preferred, Prior finance industry experience preferred
What You'll Do.
Develop understanding of Voleon's challenges
Propose RL research innovations
Assess predictive efficacy
Evaluate model success
Communicate effectively
Collaborate effectively
Keep up to date on RL research
Identify novel approaches
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
With other Members of Research Staff; With Software Engineers
Communication Scope
Communicate effectively
Full Job Description
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. For nearly two decades, our affiliate Voleon Capital Management has led the hedge fund industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management, becoming a multibillion-dollar asset manager. Voleon Securities builds on Voleon’s deep real-world experience applying ML to financial markets. Voleon Securities is looking to add an experienced and creative reinforcement learning researcher to our growing ML research group. We welcome researchers with both strong theoretical foundations and experience developing and scaling RL in industrial settings. Financial applications of RL are challenging and demand new methods that go beyond the academic state-of-the-art; it is critical candidates have a deep understanding of the field to draw inspiration for new methodology. This is a chance to join the initial buildout of a fully modern securities business rooted in the frontier of AI/ML and statistics. 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. Your research colleagues across Voleon have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. Founded in 2007 by two leading scientists, Voleon supports a culture of curiosity, collegiality, and creativity. Your work will focus on financial market prediction and portfolio optimization. The behavior of financial markets is noisy and violates a number of classical statistical assumptions, and we’ve spent over a decade pioneering scie
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