Sector Data Scientist, Central Team

Citadel is an alternative investment manager. The Sector Data Scientist, Central Team delivers analytical research, maintains investor-facing tools, analyzes alternative data, and improves shared technical foundations in support of investors across the fundamental equities platform.

Responsibilities

• Deliver data cuts, refreshes, mappings, cohort analyses, seasonality work, and recurring data pulls
• Create and maintain investor-facing trackers, dashboards, and workflows; add companies, products, geographies, KPIs, and views
• Query, clean, transform, and analyze datasets using statistical and time-series methods
• Investigate anomalies, reconcile sources, monitor pipelines, maintain mappings, and document assumptions and limitations
• Improve the quality, flexibility, testing, documentation, and reusability of common Python and SQL tooling
• Use LLMs and Citadel’s AI infrastructure to accelerate extraction, monitoring, and recurring research workflows
• Partner with Sector Data Scientists and investors to understand context, communicate findings, and prioritize work with real alpha

Skills

• A passion for delivering value to investment teams by questioning the consensus and looking for informational advantages in data
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Recent graduate or up to 2 years in software engineering, data science, or analytics
• Interest in building reliable, scalable analytical solutions and improving shared technical foundations
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL; familiarity with version control, testing, and data pipelines
• Ability to explore unfamiliar datasets, validate results, and identify commercial applications
• Demonstrated interest in investing, companies, business models, or economic questions
• Comfortable moving across sectors, incorporating feedback, and rapidly building domain knowledge
• Clear communicator with strong attention to detail, dependable execution, and sound judgment

Benefits

• Access to the world’s most comprehensive infrastructure for alternative data and AI
• Broad exposure to alternative data across sectors and investment questions
• Learning from accomplished portfolio managers, analysts, engineers, and data scientists
• Mentorship
• Ownership of the shared code platform
• A pathway toward dedicated sector coverage
• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary incentive compensation program
• Medical and life insurance
• Retirement and tax-free savings plans
• Access to other healthcare programs

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