Data Scientist - Leading Quant Hedge Fund

New York, NY Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 22, 2025 Last posted March 22, 2025
Job description
Are you a Data Scientist that is interested in working with one of world's leading Quantitative Hedge Funds? Are you a Data Scientist that would enjoy working with a cutting-edge financial and engineering teams and to expand their data science and machine learning capabilities?

This New York City based leading Quantitative Hedge Fund seeks a talented Data Scientist that will work closely with the finance, operations, as well as other investment teams across the firm.

As the Data Scientist, you will:
• Manage large amounts of complex data in R or Python and running quantitative queries.
• Identify timely and unique data sets, diving deep into a diverse set of data domains as well as visualizing and exploring underlying data drivers
• Build statistical analysis and financial modeling techniques to large data sets.

What you need:

  • Master's or PhD degree from a competitive university in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, operational research, computer science, finance or economics.
  • Quantitative and Developer experience (Python and/or object oriented programming)
  • Prior experience working or Internship at a Financial firm or leading technology (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc...) firm is helpful
  • Proficiency with statistical and data analysis and programming tools such as R, SAS, Stata, SQL or Matlab.
What you get:
• Work with one of the leading Quantitative Hedge Funds
• Work in not your typical hedge fund. Very collaborative and casual work environment as compared to most Wall St. Firms
• Incredible work perks (too many to name!)
About this role

Summary

Manage complex data, build statistical analysis, and financial modeling techniques.

Job title

Data Scientist

Experience level

Master's or PhD

Industry

finance

Location requirements

New York City, remote work not allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

Master's or PhDquantitative experiencePythonRstatistical analysis

Preferred skills

financial firm experienceSASStataSQLMatlab

Specializations

data sciencemachine learningquantitative analysisfinancial modelingstatistical analysis
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

New York, NY, USA

On-site City