Quantitative Researcher

Company: Venture Up
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role, you will develop statistical models to estimate probabilities of sports outcomes for a sports betting hedge fund. You join a highly skilled team focused on building and refining probabilistic models and extracting insights from diverse data sources. You will explore, test, and optimise modelling approaches to support decision-making and performance. This is a chance to work at the intersection of quantitative research and sports analytics, shaping scalable modelling approaches.

Responsibilities

  • Develop probabilistic and statistical models to predict sports outcomes
  • build and refine models, ensuring quality and evolution over time
  • explore multiple modelling approaches and test their performance
  • extract meaningful information from diverse sporting and market data sources
  • work with a team of quants to tackle complex sporting questions
  • apply GLMs, BMMs, Kalman filters, MCMC and TrueSkill in modelling
  • contribute to the research and development of sports modelling capabilities

Key requirements

  • 1+ years of experience
  • Statistics graduate/post-graduate
  • Electronic Trading Experience
  • Python, TensorFlow
  • Straight As at A level (or equivalent)
  • Kaggle profile (or other practical statistical experience)
  • Python stack (numpy, pandas, etc.)
  • R
  • TensorFlow

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Posted: October 1st, 2026