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

Think You’d be a great fit ?

Drop us an email at info@turnleafanalytics.com with your resume and we’ll get in touch!