Data Scientist - Associate

Job highlights

• Required qualifications,capabilities and skills .
• Preferred qualifications,capabilities and skills .
• Deliver generative AI or machine learning solutions in a regulated enterprise environment. Bring front-office or buy-side experience,particularly in investment research,portfolio analytics,performance attribution,or decision analytics.

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Applied AI & Machine Learning . You have found the right team.

As Applied AI & Machine Learning Professional within our Asset Management Data Science Team , you will be responsible for setting and improving our organizational objectives, and ensuring their consistent accomplishment.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable architecture for LLM-powered investment tools, including reusable patterns for integration, governance, observability, and access control
• Build and scale AI applications and automated workflows using models, retrieval, and tools with orchestration for state management, retries, checkpointing, deterministic controls, and appropriate human oversight
• Develop context-management and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities, including ingestion, chunking, metadata, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, and grounded outputs
• Create reliable data and knowledge pipelines that transform structured and unstructured enterprise content into governed, high-quality inputs for AI applications
• Establish engineering standards for reusable tools and model integrations, including interfaces, permissions, testing, failure handling, and documentation
• Implement evaluation and end-to-end observability for AI systems, including structured logging and tracing across model calls, retrieval steps, and tool execution
• Optimize AI systems for quality, task completion, latency, token usage, cost, reliability, and business impact
• Partner with portfolio managers and research teams to understand investment processes and translate them into practical solutions within the firm s ecosystem

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Earn a Master s degree or PhD in computer science, statistics, mathematics, engineering, econometrics, or another quantitative field
• Apply a strong foundation in statistics, probability, experimental design, and machine learning to select appropriate methods and interpret quantitative results
• Build, deploy, and scale LLM-powered applications, including retrieval, tool use, workflow orchestration, state management, structured outputs, and evaluation, using frameworks such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex, or equivalent
• Design prompts and context effectively, including embeddings, vector and keyword search, reranking, model selection, and quality/latency/cost optimization
• Write strong Python and SQL, using common data and machine learning libraries and frameworks
• Demonstrate sound numerical intuition and understanding of financial markets, investment research, portfolio construction, risk, performance, and investment data
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions and communicate technical trade-offs to a range of stakeholders

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Deliver generative AI or machine learning solutions in a regulated enterprise environment
• Bring front-office or buy-side experience, particularly in investment research, portfolio analytics, performance attribution, or decision analytics
• Incorporate unstructured or alternative data into research and production workflows
• Apply familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or comparable standards for securely connecting AI applications to enterprise data, tools, and services
• Use LLM observability and evaluation standards or platforms such as OpenTelemetry, OpenInference, Arize Phoenix, LangSmith, or equivalent (including traces across model, retrieval, and tool-execution steps)
• Leverage familiarity with knowledge graphs, multimodal models, fine-tuning, synthetic data, or advanced model-evaluation techniques
• Pursue CFA qualification or progress toward the CFA designation

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