The Voleon Group

Machine Learning · Financial AI
Truth index A
57Open roles6 posted in 30 days+1 this week
$220kMedian advertised pay$160k – $300k+42% vs market
118 daysTime to fillmedian of 23 closed rolesmarket: 34 days
A 95/100Truth index
Lately:+1 roles posted this week1 news story in 90 daysFollow changes →

Facts

as of Nov 14, 2026

The Voleon Group is a quantitative investment management firm headquartered in Berkeley, California, that runs systematic trading strategies built on machine learning. It was founded in 2007 by Michael Kharitonov and Jon McAuliffe and applies statistical modelling to large data sets to forecast financial markets. The firm has offices in New York and London and hires researchers and research interns, platform software engineers, and compliance, tax and legal staff.

It is hiring: 57 open roles, 6 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 42% above the market estimate for the same roles.

Headquarters
Berkeley, United States
Founded
2007
Employees
51-200estimated range
Open roles
57 in 3 citiesAlion job postings
Official records
Wikidata Q121679118
Website
voleon.com

As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 57 open roles at The Voleon Group. The Voleon Group is headquartered in Berkeley, United States. It was founded in 2007. The median pay stated in its open roles is $220k, across 49 postings that state pay.

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Trust

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What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Postings are real
Alion truth index: A
95/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
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Hiring

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Hiring slowly: few roles were posted lately.

HR is the largest family, 26 of open roles.

6Posted in 30 days11% of open roles are fresh
49%Remote roles28 of 57
9Roles in AI16% of open roles
3Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
35 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States35On site
United Kingdom11On site
Remote, from elsewhere28Possible
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 28.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
The Voleon Group118 days
Market, same roles34 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand80
Pay59
Your chance65
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+161%
Jul 27This week
Open roles a week: 23 then, 60 now
Are the postings real?
A
95 / 100The Voleon Group scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 57 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 119 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale0%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
HR26▲
Backend17
Finance13▲
Legal13▲
AI/ML9▼
DevOps9
Newest roles
IT Systems Engineer - Voleon Securities
$150k – $175k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · New York · Berkeley
Senior Compliance Associate - AML / Privacy (London)
$106k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · London
Software Engineer, Platform Team
$235k – $300k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Berkeley
Staff Software Engineer, Platform Team
$325k – $410k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Berkeley
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 76%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 24%
Experience asked: 4.5 years on average, in 42 postings. 41 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Equity24%
Company events12%
Professional development12%
Continuous learning12%
Contract type
Full-Time 54Internship 3
Visa sponsorship in some rolesRelocation: none stated
View 57 jobsRoles matching my profile
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Pay

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Pays 42% above the market estimate for the same roles.

$220kMedianmarket estimate $155k
$160k – $300kTypical rangeUSD a year
$410kHighest paying roleStaff Software Engineer, Strategy Platform
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $155k
Junior5$160k$120k – $190k
Middle5$295k$200k – $300k
Senior17$175k$145k – $255k
Staff+14$275k$275k – $325k
$0$100k$200k$300k$400k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Footprint

Hiring in 3 cities in 2 countries.

3Cities
2Countries
BerkeleyBusiest site
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
Berkeley United StatesHeadquarters36Backend, HR, AI/ML61%
New York United StatesPlant / site29Backend, HR, AI/ML66%
London United KingdomCorporate office9HR, AI/ML, Data Science33%
All 3 offices
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Peers

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Ranked #8 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.

#CompanyHQOpen rolesSize
1Susquehanna International GroupBala Cynwyd, United States2171001-5000
2Millennium ManagementNew York, United States1761001-5000
3DRWChicago, United States1451001-5000
4Tower Research CapitalNew York, United States91501-1000
5WorldQuantOld Greenwich, United States731001-5000
6DV TradingChicago, United States71201-500
7G-ResearchLondon, United Kingdom62501-1000
8The Voleon GroupBerkeley, United States5751-200
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Tech stack

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Technologies named in job postings at The Voleon Group over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

99Technologies in use
73Postings analysed
72/100Stack modernityAI adopter
LanguagesPython 60%C++ 21%SQL 18%Java 14%
Frameworks & librariesPandas 8%PyTorch 5%TensorFlow 4%NumPy 3%
DatabasesPostgreSQL 18%Redis 8%Trino 7%DuckDB 5%
Cloud & platformsLinux 32%Unix 22%Kubernetes 16%Grafana 10%
AI & MLLLM 1%
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Full The Voleon Group tech stack99 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Newsroom

top 0.14%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Aug 222026
News · efinancialcareers.com
System Maintenance
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