Director of Engineering, Strategy Applications
The Voleon GroupBerkeley, California, United States • United States
Posted August 26, 2025
310000 - 325000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
The Voleon Group, founded in 2007 by machine learning scientists, is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. Specializing in large-scale financial prediction through statistical machine learning, the company combines academic research with scalable technology to drive innovative investment strategies. Led by a team of experts with Ph.D.s from top institutions, Voleon fosters a culture of creativity and intellectual curiosity, ensuring excellence in all operations while being an equal opportunity employer.
Job Description
Voleon is a technology company applying AI and machine learning to finance. They are seeking a Director of Engineering, Strategy Applications to lead a team responsible for the operationalization of research outputs and the power of trading engines. This role involves developing and owning the systems that execute, reconcile, and bookkeep trading operations, while mentoring and scaling a team to deliver high-performance systems.
Requirements
- Effectively manage a group of managers and senior individual contributors
- Develop ambitious yet achievable goals for your team, and reliably deliver results
- Work closely with stakeholder teams to develop a roadmap and future vision for your domain
- Engage deeply on technical details of the products and roadmap that your team owns
- Mentor and grow managers and individual contributors
- Capture business logic to ensure reliable delivery of our core trading products
- Scale and operationalize our execution and production trading systems
- Collaborate with our operations team to oversee systems and capture data for compliance
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision coverage
- life and AD&D insurance
- 20 days of paid time off
- 9 sick days
- 401(k) plan with company match
