Statistician/Mathematician/Data Mining Polymath - Chicago and San Francisco

Do you enjoy:

• Making predictions?
• Finding solutions where defining the problem is half of the task?
• Inventing new approaches and applying them?
• Working with extremely bright people?

If so, we would like to speak to you.

We are seeking a statistician / mathematician / data mining polymath with strong programming skills to join our team in Chicago. Please have the following qualifications:

• MS (PhD preferred) in statistics, mathematics, economics, physical sciences, or related field.
• Minimum three years of industry experience analyzing data for financial services, marketing, or related industry.
• Familiarity with several of the following techniques: financial time series, ARCH models, GARCH models, stochastic volatility models, CART, econometrics, logistic regression, segmentation, clustering, support vector machines, and similar quantitative techniques.
• Comfortable programming your ideas in R, Python, C++, MySQL, etc.

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter in plain text to xx at opendatagroup.com. Principals only please. Please replace xx with hr to create a valid email address.

Open Data provides full benefits. Compensation for some positions includes a bonus tied to the performance of the models you develop.

About Open Data Group

Open Data is a leading provider of strategic consulting and outsourced analytic services that enable our clients to use data analytics to further their strategic objectives.

We also develop proprietary trading technology and use this technology each day in the market.

Open Data was founded in 2002 and has completed a variety of innovative and challenging projects with market leaders, including: developing a risk model for a payments card processor, introducing a new award winning approach to data quality, developing a fraud model for an internet company, and developing a utilization model for a health care provider. We have also developed several different proprietary trading models.

Some projects at Open Data Group require a U.S. citizenship.

Open Data Group's philosophy is to use an open source infrastructure based upon MySQL, Python and R (MPR) for data mining and outsourced analytical services. An interest in contributing to this infrastructure is desirable but not a requirement for the position.

Open Data Group has a track record of innovation in analytics and for contributing to the research community and is looking for individuals who are interested in continuing this tradition.

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter in plain text to xx at opendatagroup.com. Principals only please. Please replace xx with hr to create a valid address.