Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia seeks established researchers with expertise in economics/econometrics and machine learning methods and applications to join a new machine learning center being established in the Bank. Researchers will apply machine learning to study issues facing economic policymakers and regulators such as loan evaluation, payment system linkages, credit risk model evaluation, unstructured data analysis, forecasting, and solving nonlinear heterogeneous agent models. The Bank collects and maintains large proprietary data sets related to consumer finance and bank supervision, making it an excellent environment for someone with machine learning expertise. The position will afford the opportunity to build a data science team within the Bank.

The successful candidate must have a track record of high-quality research and an established research agenda, as demonstrated by having had several articles published in top-tier academic journals. He or she must also possess superior writing and speaking skills.

The Bank offers an outstanding research environment and competitive salaries and benefits. Additional information about the Research Department may be found at www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/.