Technical Lead

Responsibilities

• Participate in cutting edge research in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications.
• Develop solutions for real world, large scale problems.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1 to 2 years of work or educational experience in Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++ or Python.
• Work or educational experience, including software development experience, or relevant work experience with a PhD in Computer Science, data science or related technical field.

Preferred qualifications:

• BEng/MEng degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related technical field.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Natural Language Processing, text understanding, classification, pattern recognition, recommendation systems, targeting systems, ranking systems or similar.

Our Values

At Xalpha, we believe that maintaining strong values is key to building a healthy and sustainable work culture. Values shape our thoughts, words and actions and together they build an internal cohesion in the team that enable us to make the best decisions harmoniously.

Trust

We encourage an environment where trust is the backbone to every decision being made, owing to our firm belief that strong transparency within the team is crucial for any business’ long-term success. Unsurprisingly built as the foundation of the Results Pyramid, trust makes you comfortable with being vulnerable to everyone’s behaviours, strengths and weaknesses, cultivating only the best ideas at Xalpha.

Radical open-mindedness Combined with trust, it is important to be radically open-minded and speak passionately about your own beliefs with founded conviction. We find that the act of scientifically challenging the opinions of others through thoughtful disagreements often converges to the most efficient solutions.

“If x, do x^x”

In every project that we undertake, we make it the norm to be fully dedicated, whether we succeed or fail. if (effort >= x) {effort = x^x;} is our code of conduct where we encourage our team to go beyond their call of duty and more than exponentially grow towards our potential.

Longstanding Integrity

Dealing with money often can blind people and can lead them to take moral short-cuts. At Xalpha we believe that the greatest value will accrue in the long run. Having an impeccable reputation and being long term oriented will help us to be the most successful in the long run. “If you lose money for the firm I will be understanding. If you lose reputation I will be ruthless.” - Warren Buffett

Equal Employment Commitment

We are committed to equal employment opportunity and consider applications from all wanting to join us in believing the potential of blockchain to shape the future. If you have a disability or special needs that require accommodating, please let us know.

Your DNA

~ Intellectual curiosity: passionate about solving causation, blockchain technologies and its impact on the future of humanity ~ Experience or desire to learn new technologies and fields ~ Be radically open minded ~ Clean coding best practice, TDD a must ~ Mental toughness to persevere through difficult challenges ~ Interest in emerging technologies such ML, IPFS, etc ~ Understanding of microservices and event-driven architecture techniques; DDD ~ Understands hashing and cryptography concepts

Your Day to Day

~ You will be a lead member of our technical team working to release regular iterations of the quantitative strategies. ~ Contribute technical ideas and suggestions to enhance the strategies. ~ Write efficient, maintainable and reusable code and tests. ~ Review analytics and performance metrics to draw conclusions and drive change.

Deadline

The deadline for applications is 30th June 2018. We will begin to review applications before the deadline and therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Successful candidates will be offered a competitive salary including bonus.

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