About the Role
Cubist’s Data Services (CDS) group is looking for a Data Scientist to join our dedicated data team. Our group is responsible for the timely delivery of comprehensive and error-free data to some of the most demanding and successful systematic Portfolio Managers in the world. As a Senior Data Scientist in the team, this individual will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day implementation of a large research infrastructure, and the live production trading of billions of dollars of capital across global capital markets, including equities, futures, options and other financial instruments.
Responsibilities
- Onboarding novel datasets from a huge variety of sources into our platform
- Building processes, tools and frameworks to ingest, clean and deliver datasets
- Analysis of data for usability, cleanliness, feature extraction and proposed usage by investment teams
- Creation of in-house, value added, derived data products for consumption by investment teams
- Engaging with vendors and internal stakeholders to understand characteristics of datasets
- Partnering closely with investment teams to ensure their data requirements are met
- Research on new technologies (including AI solutions) to continuously improve data management and value-add for investment teams
Requirements
- PhD or Masters in Financial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other disciplines involving rigorous quantitative analysis
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience working with AWS, Linux and Airflow preferred but not required
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or similar role
- Experience working with large data sets including predictive modeling
- Financial industry experience preferred but not required
- Strong organization, communication and interpersonal skills
- Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for learning
- Attention to detail and a love of processes
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to multitask and prioritize assignments
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards