Philadelphia Jobs - December 2018

Stevens Capital Management LP| Developers| Philadelphia, USA| ONSITE| VISA

Stevens Capital Management LP (“SCM”) is a registered investment adviser that manages a multi-billion dollar hedge fund that has been in business for 30 years.

SCM specializes in the rigorous development and disciplined implementation of empirically based quantitative trading strategies. Our highly productive team works in a fast-paced collegial environment, utilizing extensive data sets, technology and the scientific method to devise and employ trading strategies throughout the world’s most liquid financial markets.

We are seeking highly driven, production-oriented developers who possess strong technical skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

For more information, please visit our careers page. https://grnh.se/28096c1d1

Wharton Research Data Services (University of Pennsylvania) | Data Scientist | Philadelphia, PA | ONSITE | VISA

We are looking for a full-time Data Scientist to join us at Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a Wharton department that provides business intelligence, data analytics, and research support to academic institutions around the world.

## Technical Details

· Programming languages: Python! You will make use of the `pandas` module extensively in daily work. Knowing how to parallelize your computation is a bonus (we work on a 40-core server). It would help to explain your work to your fellow colleagues if you know SAS, but it is not a required skill.

· Machine learning: "Shallow" learning techniques (such as SVM classifiers with `scikit-learn`) would help a lot, while neural network packages (such as Tensorflow/Keras) would be an overkill.

· Environment: All our R&Ds are performed on a Linux server. You need to be comfortable with terminal access, Linux commands, SSH tunneling, and package management with `conda`. Our filesystem is NFS, so knowledge of optimizing IO for cache utilization would be great.

· Delivery: You need to be good at clearly summarizing your work by writing reports and documentations. By "clear", we mean "easily understandable by financial analysts who have little CS background". In terms of format, Word is good, but LaTeX or Markdown would be a delight. You will also need to pack your derived datasets and/or codes in a portable way, so that our data team can add them to our client-facing database. You can choose your own version control solution.

· Computational resources available: We have Jupyter Lab deployed on our internal R&D server, as well as a huge SAS cluster shared with our clients. Most of our numerical data are on PostgreSQL. Feel free to set up our own MongoDB, etc., if needed.

## Preferred Background Knowledge in Finance

We are in the School of Finance, after all. While not required, these background and experience will be preferred:

· experience with business/financial/accounting analytics based on large datasets,

· knowledge in finance,

· good at foosball,

· experience working with SEC data (including textual filings and numerical data), and

· experience with financial databases (e.g. CUSIP, CRSP, and Compustat).

## Apply

If you are interested, please apply through Penn Human Resources at https://upenn.dejobs.org/philadelphia-pa/business-systems-an... .

QuotaPath | Backend or Full-stack Engineer | Philadelphia, PA or Austin, TX | Full-Time | On-Site | https://www.quotapath.com/careers/ Sales compensation plans can be shockingly complex. Too often, salespeople are forced to use unfriendly accounting software from the web 1.0 era, or worse, to pass around Excel spreadsheets, without the ability to verify the calculations or understand how they work. At QuotaPath, we're solving this problem in a new way. We're creating a platform that's built for salespeople, not accountants. This means our business model is unique, both consumer-facing and B2B ("B2BC"; think Slack). Good UX and beautiful design are at the core of our process. The demand for a product like this is intense and we're working as hard as we can to deliver features to eager users.

We're looking for engineers to help us accelerate our development as a product and as a company. If you're interested in having a huge impact on a small team, this is a great opportunity. We're well-funded, but we're still only 8 people: 3 engineers, 1 UX and 4 others in product and executive team. I'm one of those 3 engineers, and I'm also the technical co-founder. Please ask me questions if you have any!

Our stack is Python + Django on the backend, TypeScript + React on the frontend, but we're more interested in working with people who are smart and capable than people from any particular background. If you have strong opinions about using different tech, we'll hear you. Like most startups, we're built on lots of open source tech and we plan on giving back. We value building a culture of inclusion and transparency. We care about diversity and hope you do too.

Feel free to reach out to me directly: eric at quotapath dot com

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CIONIC | Full-time Remote (US-only) | Sensor Design Engineer

CIONIC is a newly founded (and funded!) startup, that builds wearable solutions to improve quality of life for people with mobility issues.

We're looking for someone with electrical engineering and sensor design experience, and a self-motivated interest in biological signals, specifically EMG at the outset.

We are a remote-first company, with a small, mature team of makers, working from SF, Seattle, and Philadelphia.

See http://cionic.com/careers for the full job description.

QuotaPath | Backend or Full-stack Engineer | Philadelphia, PA or Austin, TX | Full-Time | On-Site | https://www.quotapath.com/careers/ Sales compensation plans can be shockingly complex. Too often, salespeople are forced to use unfriendly accounting software from the web 1.0 era, or worse, to pass around Excel spreadsheets, without the ability to verify the calculations or understand how they work.

At QuotaPath, we're solving this problem in a new way. We're creating a platform that's built for salespeople, not accountants. This means our business model is unique, both consumer-facing and B2B ("B2BC"; think Slack). Good UX and beautiful design are at the core of our process. The demand for a product like this is intense and we're working as hard as we can to deliver features to eager users.

We're looking for engineers to help us accelerate our development as a product and as a company. If you're interested in having a huge impact on a small team, this is a great opportunity. We're well-funded, but we're still only 8 people: 3 engineers, 1 UX and 4 others in product and executive team. I'm one of those 3 engineers, and I'm also the technical co-founder. Please ask me questions if you have any!

Our stack is Python + Django on the backend, TypeScript + React on the frontend, but we're more interested in working with people who are smart and capable than people from any particular background. If you have strong opinions about using different tech, we'll hear you. Like most startups, we're built on lots of open source tech and we plan on giving back. We value building a culture of inclusion and transparency. We care about diversity and hope you do too.

Feel free to reach out to me directly: eric at quotapath dot com