Associate Member of Trading Staff

Summary

The job is for an Associate Member of Trading Staff at Voleon, a technology company that applies machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. The role involves rotating across credit, equity, forex, and derivatives desks, interfacing with external brokers, contributing to the codebase underlying automated trading operations, building processes and technology to prevent errors or outages while increasing team capacity, providing insight and expertise to research and development staff, and working global market hours for a portion of every year on a rotational basis.

Requirements

• Demonstrated passion for markets
• Proficiency in a programming language like Python or R
• Experience using a Unix-like OS
• Academic or practical familiarity with statistics
• A skillset in data analysis and visualization
• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or quantitative discipline
• Attention to detail and clarity of thought

Responsibilities

• Monitor high-volume execution algorithms and portfolio risk
• Track real-time market developments
• Interface with external brokers and trading counterparties
• Contribute to the codebase underlying automated trading operations
• Build processes and technology to prevent errors or outages while increasing team capacity
• Provide insight and expertise to the research and development staff