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For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.\nYour colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.\nAs a Software Engineer in Strategy Research Analytics, you will lead the design, evolution, and long-term architecture of Voleon’s analytics infrastructure supporting research reporting and analysis across strategies. You will own critical recurring analytics pipelines and foundational datasets, while guiding the transition from fragmented, bespoke workflows toward a standardized, observable, and query-native analytics platform. In addition to hands-on implementation, you will shape technical direction, establish reliability standards, and drive consolidation efforts that improve consistency, scalability, and reproducibility across research analytics systems.\nYou’ll collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Researchers, and Data Infrastructure teams to ensure analytics systems run reliably and produce consistent, queryable datasets. This role offers strong technical ownership within a mission-critical area of the research organization, with meaningful impact on research velocity and insight generation.\nYour Team\nThe Research Analytics team sits within Research Engineering and works closely with Data Scientists and Researchers across all of Voleon's core strategies. 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For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nThe Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. 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