https://www.kensho.com
250 - 500 employees
Public
B2B
Big Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software / SaaS
FinTech & Payments
Security
Technology Tools

Kensho Company Overview

Kensho deploys scalable machine learning and analytics systems across the most critical government and commercial institutions in the world to solve some of the hardest analytical problems of our time.

Backed by investors as diverse as Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and In-Q-Tel (the venture capital arm of the CIA), Kensho was founded out of MIT and Harvard in 2013. Kensho’s team members come from veteran positions at Google, Apple, and Facebook, as well as academia.

We are a diverse and spirited group of engineers and scientists who are accomplished analytical thinkers and passionate problem solvers. Together, our multi-talented team includes one of the seven members of the original Apple iPhone engineering team, PhD physicists, Quantum Computing PhDs (including the creator of the world’s first solid-state two-bit quantum processor with electron spins), the co-founder of Nowcasting at Google, and one of the youngest-ever entrants to Harvard College (age 15).

We are proud of individual accomplishments, as well as the collaborative environment we’ve built, and what we’re capable of as a team.

Jobs at Kensho

 
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Data Engineer
New York
At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy, support, and resources needed to build cutting edge technology and products for our parent company, S&P Global. As a result, we produce technology that is scalable, robust, and solves the challenges of one of the worlds largest, most successful financial institutions. As a Data Engineer on the Knowledge Team, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining scalable data infrastructure and services to power our next-generation suite of products. Are you looking to make impactful, scalable...
Data Science / Machine Learning
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Software Engineer, Front End
Cambridge
At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy, support, and resources needed to build cutting edge technology and products for our parent company, S&P Global. As a result, we produce technology that is scalable, robust, and solves the challenges of one of the worlds largest, most successful financial institutions. As a senior software engineer on the frontend team, you will work on large projects that span various groups across the organization. Our frontend team is a tight-knit and high-velocity team thats responsible for the web products across Kensho. With more...
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Software Engineer, Data
Cambridge
At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy, support, and resources needed to build cutting edge technology and products for our parent company, S&P Global. As a result, we produce technology that is scalable, robust, and solves the challenges of one of the worlds largest, most successful financial institutions. As a software engineer on the Data Team, you will be responsible for aggregating thousands of messy data points and making sure they are integrated into Kenshos systems and easily accessible to our teams. Our Data Team consists of a diverse mix of engineers...
Data Science / Machine Learning
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Senior Front End Software Engineer
Cambridge
At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy, support, and resources needed to build cutting edge technology and products for our parent company, S&P Global. As a result, we produce technology that is scalable, robust, and solves the challenges of one of the worlds largest, most successful financial institutions. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Front End team, you will be responsible for working closely with the team lead to create and implement goals and objectives for the team, architecting large scale projects that impact the organization as a whole, being a "...
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Front End Team Lead
Cambridge
At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy, support, and resources needed to build cutting edge technology and products for our parent company, S&P Global. As a result, we produce technology that is scalable, robust, and solves the challenges of one of the worlds leading financial institutions. As the Front End team lead, you will be responsible for driving the engineering efforts across the scope of Kenshos Front End projects. Our Front End team is a tight-knit and high-velocity team thats responsible for the web products across Kensho. With more projects than team...
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Machine Learning Engineer
Cambridge
At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy, support, and resources needed to build cutting edge technology and products for our parent company, S&P Global. As a result, we produce technology that is scalable, robust, and solves the challenges of one of the worlds largest, most successful financial institutions. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for tackling a wide range of problems from natural language processing to timeseries prediction. You will move beyond the theoretical confines of academia and apply your tradecraft to build machine...
Data Science / Machine Learning
17 Dunster St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
One World Trade Center
New York, NY 10006

Daniel Nadler
Founder

Daniel Nadler
Founder

Adam Broun
President & COO

Adam Broun
President & COO

Welcome to Kensho!

With floor-to-ceiling windows, Kensho's Harvard Square office provides beautiful views, open spaces, and natural light loved by all.

In true Kensho fashion, our conference rooms are named after sci-fi characters.

Employees (fondly referred to as Kenshins) are at their most productive in our floating chairs.

Many Kenshins have found their swolemates in our two in-office gyms.

Here, Will from our national security division works on his typing muscles.

If you need to unwind, our two meditation rooms offer some peace and quiet.

Employees can kick up their feet and enjoy some sunshine while diving in to their work.

One of our engineers, Adity, collaborates with product manager Tara while enjoying the view.

Kenshins are a multifaceted group, with hobbies from skiing to theatre to chess.

Playing ping pong is so popular, we have a Slack channel entirely devoted to scheduling games!

Our employees are proud of who they are, so we can't help but be proud too...

Because nothing beats those moments when Kensho comes together.

Read About Us

Office Tours
Kensho Office Tour in Cambridge
July 10, 2018
Announcing the Nominees for the 6th Annual NEVY Awards
April 2, 2018
Talent on the Move
Talent on the Move - March 30, 2018
March 30, 2018
Boston Tech Deals Roundup - Acquisitions and Funding News (Feb 26 - Mar 7)
March 9, 2018
VentureFizz's Year in Review - Top Investments of 2017
December 27, 2017
Talent on the Move
Talent on the Move - July 21, 2017
July 21, 2017

Blog

Working at Kensho this summer
September 4, 2019
What I learned at Kensho this summerI joined Kensho as a software engineering intern this summer and learned quite a bit. I thought it’d be nice to write about what helped me along the way. Instead of a laundry list of software I built, though, I’d rather go in depth about a few observations I made this summer.Gotta go fastA bit of context: this was my first time working at a tech company that had more employees than I can count on one hand. Up until this summer, nearly my whole understan...
A Day in the Life of Caroline
July 22, 2019
A Day in the Life, a series started by Kensho’s Diversity and Inclusion committee, showcases Kenshins and their day-to-day experiences. Check out the Kensho Blog for more Day in the Life posts.My day starts at 6:15 am. I’m finding it easy to be a morning person lately with these long summer days and early morning sunshine. I stay in bed for a few minutes catching up on my news feed, social media and email. A few interesting new leads came in from the website while I was sleeping, which is a...
Mastering the Two Halves of Your Brain
March 4, 2019
Separation of Concerns in Machine Learning Systems at ScaleWe love scikit-learn! Let me say it again- we love scikit-learn. It puts machine learning methods at our fingertips and simplifies chaining together complex models to understand our data. In fact, scikit-learn makes it almost too easy to use machine learning methods. You can call fit() with a neatly packaged estimator so quickly on some raw data that it’s easy to overlook data exploration. However, there are several design choices in ...
A Day in the Life of Mark
February 27, 2019
A Day in the Life, a series started by Kensho’s Diversity and Inclusion committee, showcases Kenshins and their day-to-day experiences.It’s 4:03am on a cold day in early January, and Jessi nudges Mark gently, “Can you change her?” There is, of course, only one correct answer to this. Mark lifts the surprisingly heavy Isadora, their beautiful 2-month-old baby, and zombie-walks down the hall from their bedroom to Isa’s nursery. In early-morning moments like this one, he always worries he...
A Day in the Life of Tara
January 16, 2019
Kensho’s Day in the Life series gives readers the opportunity to meet Kenshins and get a glimpse into their day-to-day.“Bye, Mama!” my little one sings as I kiss her goodbye and head out the door. It’s a little before 8:30 and I’ve already had a couple of hours with my girls greeting the day: getting everyone ready, listening to what’s on their minds, making them breakfast, packing lunches and backpacks, and walking my older daughter to the bus stop. I’ve also squeezed in a load of...
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