Economist/Data Scientist
Turnleaf Analytics is a London-based leader in macroeconomic nowcasting. We serve central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and investment banks globally using our proprietary AI platform, MARCOS.
We're looking for an Economist/Data Scientist with a strong economics background to build nowcasting/forecasting models for macroeconomic indicators — working at the intersection of econometrics, machine learning, and alternative data.
London
Data Science
Junior
Full-Time
Responsibilities
- Build nowcasting models (LASSO, XGBoost, DFMs, LSTM/GRU) and ensemble strategies
- Apply economic intuition to feature selection, validation, and output interpretation
- Integrate traditional macro data with alternative sources (web-scraped prices, satellite, sentiment)
- Produce diagnostics, explainability outputs, and conformal prediction bands
- Communicate results to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desired Qualifications
- Master’s/PhD in Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, or similar
- 2+ years combining economics and data science
- Strong Python (scikit-learn, statsmodels, XGBoost, Pandas)
- Solid time series and applied econometrics skills
- Experience with macroeconomic data; alternative data is a plus