Lead Machine Learning Data Scientist (Director)
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
- MSc, PhD in mathematics, statistics, quantitative finance, physics, computer science, or other
- Academic and/or professional experiences in advanced machine learning and data mining strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research utilizing large data sets
- Hands on experiences applying advanced machine learning methods to techniques
- Experience with natural language processing techniques essential
- Good intuition for conducting empirical financial research and strong analytical, econometrics and quantitative skills.
- Strong programming skills (Python, SQL, Matlab, Java,, C++, and R)
Knowledge of: toolkits such as Torch, Theano, TensorFlow, Keras, Spark, sklearn, Chainer , etc. - Expertise in linear algebra and calculus, etc.
- At least 5+ years of relevant experience
- Effective communicator of research ideas for collaborative team-oriented research
Strong Buy-side experienced also welcomed.