Data Scientist (VOL-SY)

Data Scientist (VOLSY)
Locally Compact, Inc. — New York, NY

Locally Compact, Inc. has the following position available in New York, NY: Data Scientist (VOL-SY): Design and implement systems to ensure data correctness and monitor data health in data stores and live feeds. Proactively identify abnormal production behavior and communicate them clearly to relevant stakeholders. Perform extemporaneous analyses on research and production trading systems with leadership. Harness financial expertise and statistical analysis to gain actionable insights into production trading and research systems. Design and implement analysis pipelines that automate those analyses found to be valuable for ongoing monitoring. Telecommuting permitted up to two (2) days per week.Minimum Requirements: Master of Science or foreign degree equivalent in Computational Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field, plus one (1) year of experience in job offered, as a Financial/Market Data Analyst, or related occupation. Special Requirements: The following skills must have been gained through one (1) year of experience: 1. Experience working with complex datasets, including curation, querying, aggregation, exploratory data analysis, and visualization. 2. Experience reading, writing, and debugging production-level code in Python and R. 3. Experience with standard software development tools and workflows, including version control (e.g., Git), Unix/Linux command line (e.g., Bash), and development environments (e.g., IDEs, CI pipelines). 4. Experience with fixed income markets, including experience with instruments such as corporate bonds, U.S. Treasuries, and credit indices. 5. Experience applying machine learning methods to financial modeling problems, e.g. price modeling, return prediction, or risk modeling. 6. Experience with large-scale production datasets, including data validation, quality checks, summarization, and clear presentation of analytical findings. Submit resume to: immigration@voleon.com. Must reference job title and job code. Annual salary range: $180,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year.

Data Scientist (VOLWH)
Locally Compact, Inc. — New York, NY

Locally Compact, Inc. has the following position available in New York, NY: Data Scientist (VOL-WH): Optimize quantitative forecasting models to predict multi-cycle equity returns and improve trading performance. Incorporate risk constraints and portfolio optimization enhancements into live trading systems to improve risk-adjusted returns. Design and implement systems to ensure data correctness and monitor data health in data stores and live feeds. Perform extemporaneous analyses on research and production trading systems with leadership. Harness financial expertise and statistical analysis to gain actionable insights into production trading and research systems. Conduct rigorous statistical research to enhance model performance, including feature selection, signal evaluation, and back-testing of predictive strategies. Maintain automated research pipelines for feature generation, model training, validation, and performance monitoring. Analyze production trading systems to identify performance drivers, risk exposures, and abnormal behaviors; communicate findings and recommendations clearly to leadership and stakeholders. Perform ad hoc quantitative analyses on research and production environments to diagnose issues, evaluate new signals, and inform strategic decision-making. Build systems to ensure data integrity, correctness, and health across researchdatasets and live market feeds.Minimum Requirements: Masters degree or equivalent in Statistics, Data Science, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a closely related field and six (6) months related experience. Special Requirements: Must have each of the following: 1. Six months of demonstrated applied industry experience (including internships) working end-to-end with complex datasets, including data curation, querying, aggregation, exploratory analysis, modeling, and visualization. 2. Demonstrated experience applying statistical and quantitative methods to analyze data, identify patterns, perform root cause analysis, and generate actionable insights. 3. Demonstrated experience formulating business or research problems mathematically and deriving structured, data-driven solutions. 4. Demonstrated experience working with Python for data analysis and modeling, including Pandas and NumPy. 5. Demonstrated experience working with R and SQL to query large-scale datasets. 6. Demonstrated experience with statistical modeling techniques such as regression, time-series analysis (e.g., auto-regression, auto-correlation), hypothesis testing, or dimensionality reduction (e.g., PCA). 7. Demonstrated experience with software development, including experience with Linux/Unix, bash, and git. 8. Demonstrated experience refining ambiguous requests into well-defined analyses and delivering clear, concise reports demonstrating strong communication skills and teamwork abilities. 9. Demonstrated experience developing code in a production environment, including familiarity with CI/CD workflows and workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow). 10. Demonstrated experience working in fast-paced, collaborative, or geographically distributed environments. Employer will accept experience gained concurrently. Submit resume to: immigration@voleon.com. Must reference job title and job code. Annual salary range: $160,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year.

Data Scientist I (VOLMG)
Locally Compact, Inc. — New York, NY

Locally Compact, Inc. has the following position available in New York, NY: Data Scientist I (VOL-MG): Responsible for harvesting insights from a complex array of data. Involves data curation, analysis, interpretation, visualization, and communication of findings to members of the research staff and executive leadership. Specific duties of the Data Scientist 1 include: design and implement systems to ensure data correctness and monitor data health in data stores and live feeds; proactively identify abnormal production behavior and communicate them clearly to relevant stakeholders; harness financial expertise and statistical analysis to gain actionable insights into our production trading and research systems; design and implement pipelines that automate those analyses found to be valuable for ongoing monitoring; work with complex datasets, including curation, querying, aggregation, exploratory data analysis, and visualization. Responsible for independently scoping ambiguous analytical problems, defining quantitative metrics, executing end-to-end research analyses, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate technical findings into clear, actionable insights.Minimum Requirements: This position requires both a Bachelors and a Masters degree or equivalent in a quantitative field such as Data Science, Business Analytics, Mathematics, or Computer Science and 10 months of related data science/analyst experience. Will accept experience gained before, during, or after Masters program. Employer will accept experience gained concurrently.Special Requirements: Must also have demonstrated experience with each of the following: 1. Scoping ambiguous objectives into quantitative metrics and delivering scalable, automated analytical products using robust code in R, Python, and SQL. 2. Deriving forward-looking directions from retrospective data analysis. 3. Statistical and mathematical modeling, including model development, hypothesis testing, and validation techniques. 4. Creating data visualizations, generating summary statistics, and interpreting analytical results for stakeholders. 5. Communicating effectively with diverse technical backgrounds, reconciling and translating requests into clear analytical insights. Submit resume to: immigration@voleon.com. Must reference job title and job code. Annual salary range: $170,000.00 - $190,000.00.