Quantitative Research Engineer
About the role
Quantitative Research Engineer at Numerai • San Francisco | Wellfound Discover Find Jobs For Recruiters Log In Sign Up Numerai Actively Hiring The world's last hedge fund B2B Growth Stage Expanding market presence Top Investors This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors B2B Growth Stage Expanding market presence Top Investors This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors Save Apply Now Quantitative Research Engineer $250k – $330k • 0.0% – 0.2% | San Francisco | 5 years of exp | Full Time Reposted: 2 months ago • Recruiter recently active Job Location San Francisco Remote Work Policy In office - WFH flexibility Visa Sponsorship Not Available Relocation Allowed Skills Python Machine Learning Data Analysis Statistics Optimization Artificial Intelligence Quantitative Finance AWS Numpy/Scipy/Pandas/Scikit-learn Machine Learning Data Science Python Apache Airflow PyTorch About the job Numerai Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund powered by a decentralized network of machine learning models. Every week, thousands of data scientists from around the world compete in the https://numer.ai data science tournament to model our dataset and predict the global stock market, earning staking rewards in the NMR cryptocurrency based on their performance. Collectively, these staked predictions form the Meta Model which controls the portfolio of the Numerai hedge fund. We are looking for talented and motivated data scientists, data engineers, and machine learning researchers to help us capture all of the data in the world and convert it into alpha. The Stack Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn) AWS (S3, EC2, Batch) Airflow Terraform, Docker Postgres, MySQL
The Role Your role as a quantitative research enginer is to work on all of the systems that support the Numerai data, research, and trading pipeline. You will be asked to implement and test new risk models, determining their effect on our portfolio performance and other statistics. You will implement new portfolio management and trade execution strategies, and write research reports about the results before finally productionizing them. As a senior engineer, you will be expected to own and lead major projects while actively raising the engineering bar across the entire organization. You will work with other senior engineers to architect robust and performant systems and processes. Example Projects Integrate a new risk model into our portfolio management framework and write a research report on its