Economist/Data Scientist

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.

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London

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Data Science

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Junior

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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!