Machine Learning Engineer
An ML engineering role in the data science team of a global macro and trend-following fund. The team builds the data and model services that quant researchers and portfolio managers rely on.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Explore large market, news and alternative datasets for usable signals
- Build time-series and forecasting models that support quant strategies
- Deploy models and services in containerised environments
- Turn research findings into clear points for traders and researchers
What they ask for
Required
- Degree in computer science, engineering, OR or another quantitative field
- 3+ years of ML and statistics on large unstructured data
- Python (preferred) or C++
- Spark/Scala or SQL
- Containerised deployment
- Time series and panel data methods
- Clear communication
Preferred
- Production code for multi-client model-serving systems
- Education
- Undergraduate degree or higher in computer science, engineering, operations research or another quantitative field
- Experience
- 3+ years of hands-on ML and statistics on large datasets
- Languages and tools
How to prepare
- Build a forecasting pipeline on a large time-series dataset with proper validation
- Practise Spark or similar distributed processing on a big dataset
- Package a model as a container and serve it
- Review panel-data and time-series methods
What to study
- Financial Machine Learning
- Econometrics and Financial Time Series
- Quantitative Data Engineering
- Text as Data and NLP for Finance
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