Senior Data Scientist
Ematiq is a proprietary algorithmic trading firm that uses advanced mathematics and data-driven models to trade prediction markets and sports betting exchanges. The company is built by a team of mathematicians, traders, and engineers who develop internal software and statistical models to find edges in the markets.
About Ematiq
Ematiq describes itself as a growing group of mathematicians, traders and engineers who combine mathematics and algorithms to solve challenging problems. Its work spans three core areas: algorithmic trading across prediction markets and sports betting exchanges powered by fast data and proprietary models; sports analysis blending human expertise, statistical methods and machine learning to find market edges; and trading technologies, consisting of custom-built trading software backed by proprietary data sources and domain expertise. The company presents itself as one of the biggest market makers on prediction markets, operating its own proprietary algorithmic trading platform, and focuses on rational decision-making, analytical thinking, and continuous learning.
Skills
About the Role
You will develop and deploy predictive models and trading strategies for sports trading markets. You will combine sports-domain insights with predictive modeling and data analysis, collaborate with domain experts and the trading department, back-test and optimize models, and work with data and software engineers to bring models into production.
Requirements
- Strong background in mathematics, preferably probability theory, statistics, or machine learning
- Proficiency in developing data-driven models
- Creativity in designing models
Responsibilities
- Design predictive models for sports result predictions
- Back-test and optimize models
- Develop trading strategies for sports trading markets
- Collaborate with the trading department
- Work with polars, duckdb, and dbt
- Deploy models and trading strategies to production
