Coatue Management | New York, NY | Engineers (Scala) / Data Scientists | Full-time | ONSITE | Sponsor Visas
Coatue Management is a hedge fund based in New York City. We focus on investments in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.
We're building a market intelligence platform based on non-traditional data (ie. non-financial data). We look for unique and creative sources of data, and use it to model key firm and economic metrics.
Data Engineer:
- Experience in using and tuning Spark on large datasets (10TB) for batch processing
- Preferably has experience with AWS EMR and/or has used Scala for data engineering
- Bonus: Experience with other big data tech (e.g. Hadoop/YARN, Scalding, Flink) and/or lambda architectures
Keyword skills: Scala, Spark, Redshift, Lambda
Algorithmist:
- Experience in Scala (or any other functional language e.g. Haskell, F#, OCaml)
- Strong algorithms and data structure background e.g. competitive programming
- Bonus: Prior experience in using/implementing ML/NLP algorithms at scale
Data Scientist:
- We prioritize very strong skills at R (preferable!) or Python
- Keen to do ad hoc data diving but also build automated tools for repeating that analysis
- Employs best practices of software engineering in data science work (ie. Git, DRY etc.)
- Driven &amp; excited by forecasting problems; you care more about making great forecasts of the future as pragmatically as possible than you do about any particular statistical methodology or library.
Keyword skills: Data Science, R, Python
I lead the team - feel free to reach out directly at ai [] coatue .com
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