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Bloomberg

Financial Machine Learning & Quant Researcher

Bloomberg, New York, New York, us, 10261


Who we are:

The Bloomberg CTO Office is the future-looking technical arm of Bloomberg L.P. We envision, design and prototype the next generation infrastructure, hardware and applications that interface in all aspects of the company including financial products, broadcast and media, data centers, internal IT and our global network. We are passionate about what we do.

What we do:

BQuant is Bloomberg’s new cloud-hosted quantitative investment research platform built on JupyterLab that is designed specifically for financial markets.

As the centralized BQuant Research team, we are committed to empowering BQuant product innovation through cutting-edge research and prototype development across all product areas, by leveraging advanced techniques in quantitative finance, ML, NLP, and AI in general. Our team of experts is involved in every step of the process, from ideation to prototype, to client engagement for validation, and we work collaboratively with product managers, engineering, UX designers, and sales teams to bring product ideas to life.

What’s in it for you:

At Bloomberg, we have the richest and most comprehensive financial datasets across asset classes in the world. This offers a great opportunity for innovation by marrying technology in Machine Learning (ML) with our data and financial libraries. We have extensive product offerings from data to analytics to trading and investment management products that serve a broad client base in finance.

We have a unique opportunity to explore cutting-edge ML techniques in combination with financial domain expertise in an extremely rich problem space, and to build applications that demonstrate how those technologies can be delivered to our clients via BQuant and the Terminal. You will use a wide selection of datasets, tools, and libraries to develop solutions in trading and investment processes. You’ll shape the vision of how our clients can accelerate their research to production evolution in an efficient and scalable way. This involves data access, financial modeling with ML or quantitative methods, sound testing and evaluation, such that it is reproducible and can be adapted to clients’ use cases in an efficient way.

As applying ML in finance is still at an early stage, the potential of business impact and influence on the industry can be tremendous when it is applied appropriately. You will own the whole process from ideation to building prototypes, and to working with engineering teams to deliver to our clients. You will collaborate with teams of top-notch quants, ML researchers, and engineers.

You’ll need to have:

10+ years in quantitative/machine learning researchand development, including 5+ years in the equity space

Broad platform experience from strategy research toportfolio implementation, risk management, and performance analysis,across asset classes

Masters or PhD in quantitative fields

Solid foundation in Statistics and ML, and successesin applying them in the past

Programming skills in Python

Ability to collaborate with quants and ML teams anddrive initiatives

Ability to communicate with internal stakeholders andexternal clients effectively

We’d like to see

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Research experience in multi-asset strategies, beyondequity

Passion about applying ML/NLP techniques in financewith domain expertise

Determination to overcome challenges throughcollaborative efforts

Salary: 155000,285000,USD,Annual

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for the recruitment process. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email amer_recruit@bloomberg.net