Senior Software Engineer, Simulation Engineering

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For more than a decade, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying machine learning to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future. 
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Simulation and Portfolio Engineering team, you will contribute to our simulator, which is used across the company to evaluate and back-test research ideas. This includes various efforts ranging from realizing the maximal performance of the simulator, improving our ability to run thousands of simulations in parallel and at scale, and supporting/evaluating nascent research efforts. 
You will work with our Product Owner for Simulation Engineering to design, scope, and deliver large scale projects within the team. You will collaborate closely both with a diverse group of engineers across multiple teams and with stakeholders on research teams to contribute to a simulation platform that supports a diverse set of requirements and complex trading behaviors.
Over time, you will help defining the team's technical roadmap towards achieving strategic-level engineering goals, and participate in mentorship and development of other engineers on the team, and shaping our company's engineering culture.
Your TeamWe look for brilliant people with a passion for solving problems through innovation and engineering fundamentals. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and efficient implementation. We embrace experimentation. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers recruited from leading technology companies and selected from the sharpest minds at university programs. As one of the most research-adjacent teams in the company, you and your team will collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers.

Responsibilities

• Engage and collaborate in diverse software development work, ranging from algorithm development to working on data pipelines and building tooling for analyzing experiments
• Accelerate the company's research efforts through the development of a reliable and performant simulator code-base
• Lead company-spanning complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates across the company
• Design enhancements to our simulator code-base, used to back-test research ideas across a global set of markets and asset classes (Python / C++)
• Build and optimize algorithms for improving the efficiency and reliability of our back-testing pipelines. (Python / C++)
• Develop and own tooling used to analyze trading performance (Python / R)
• Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building highly performant systems
• Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale
• Hands-on experience developing in a Linux/UNIX environment
• Excellent communication and project management skills and a proven ability explain to complex ideas with clarity and simplicity
• Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction
• Familiarity with techniques and approaches from optimization, algorithms, and statistics.
• Experience with runtime profiling and performance optimization on large code-bases. (Python / C++)
• Exposure to modern python data science tooling (pandas, polars, duckdb etc)
• Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to tooling for running automated workflows (e.g.: airflow, docker, kubernetes), and general HPC experience
• Experience with performance improvements using GPUs

The base salary range for this position is $225,000 to $255,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.
“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral ProgramIf you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program. Equal Opportunity EmployerThe Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law. Vaccination RequirementThe Voleon Group has implemented a policy requiring all employees who will be entering our worksite, including new hires, to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine.  This policy also applies to remote employees, as such employees will be asked to visit our offices from time to time. To the extent permitted by applicable law, proof of vaccination will be required as a condition of employment. This policy is part of Voleon’s ongoing efforts to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees and community, and to support public health efforts.