Quantitative Developer / Sports Modeller – Influential Role

Quantitative Developer/Sports Modeller – Sports betting Hedge fund – Influential Role – London

Quantitative Developer/Sports Modeller is required for exciting and progressive Sports betting Hedge fund Company based in London. You will be developing statistical models to compute the probabilities of outcomes in various sports. Sports modelling is their core expertise and the company is structuring the company around creating the best possible technical and cultural environment to enable you to rapidly explore and test alternative models. You will determine the projects you work on, how you tackle them and what software and tools you use, but with support and mentoring from a very experienced team. The company uses a wide range of techniques including GLMs, BMMs, Kalman filters, MCMC and the TrueSkill Ranking system – but they encourage everyone to try the best approaches for the current problem, so if you know a technique that you think might work you will get to try it out. The successful candidate will have Statistics graduate/post-graduate (or degree with strong statistics component) from a top university, straight As at A level (or equivalent), Kaggle profile (or other practical statistical experience) a plus, sports geek a plus and Python a plus. Join an exciting company with many opportunities to progress your quantitative developer career. Send your CV for immediately review and further details.