Software / Financial Model Engineer Design Stock Picking Models with Terabytes of Data!

Software / Financial Model Engineer ~ Design Stock Picking Models with Terabytes of Data!

Match your intellect against the world’s financial geniuses as you explore this opportunity to join our outstanding quantitative modeling team, where you will research and code stock-picking models that outperform the market. (Yes, it can be done, and we have it down to a science.) Our models are so good that we sell them to hundreds of the most sophisticated quantitative money managers in the world. Not for the faint of heart, you will be challenged with terabytes of data to tame, structure, process, and clean up, with access to every analyst forecast ever recorded and every company financial statement collected since 1960. This crucial position enables you to see your own quantitative models implemented right away, for real customers, in real products, making real money.

StarMine, a Reuters company, is a global leader in research analytics and is recognized as the Gold Standard in performance measurement (and investment process improvement). StarMine products help investment managers at more than 550 of the top asset management firms around the world more efficiently research stocks, monitor their holdings, and generate investment ideas providing powerful analytics via data feeds and web-based products. We are best known for "analyzing the analysts," predicting earnings surprises, and intelligently filtering sell-side research. More recent offerings provide earnings quality scores on all stocks and overlay intelligent analysis on corporate financial statements.

As our Financial Model Engineer based in San Francisco, CA, you will join a team of highly-skilled people working to develop a testing environment for our newest stock-picking models. You will actively participate in the entire research process from developing and testing initial hypotheses to gaining insights from research findings and creatively and quickly overcoming any obstacles along the way. Simply put, your mission will be to build and test intuitively-satisfying quantitative stock ranking models that work robustly. This will be accomplished by making sense of giant quantities of data and then designing computer programs using clean, sharable, and maintainable code. Your level of success depends on your ability to formulate and test hypotheses, generate key findings, and communicate them clearly. If you have tremendous aptitude, are excited about the potential to learn and grow into a research project leader, and want to work for an amazing company, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Find out more about what makes Starmine such a great place to work!

All applications for this position are accepted via our online interview system, managed by Accolo. You can begin the interview process or refer someone you know by going to this link:

http://jobs.accolo.com/13250

Once you have completed the interview, your information will be sent directly to the hiring manager for decisions on the next steps. Regardless of the outcome, StarMine Corporation or Accolo will keep you updated as to your status by e-mail or phone.

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