I find economics and computer science more interesting than anything else, but am unsure of how I can turn this into a career. (Currently an Infrastructure Engineer at a startup, enjoying that position very much because of the rate at which I am learning).<p>Does anyone know of projects/companies that are seeking people interested in economics and CS, or of people who hold positions where they use knowledge in both of these areas?<p>Does anyone else also enjoy econ and CS above all other subjects? (Like a lot of people on HN, I have a variety of interests, but these two trump them all).
What about economics interests you? I absolutely love economics, but deeper than that, I love understanding why people do things and how the thoughts to do those things arise. Thus, I have found cognitive science to be a happy medium between (behavioral) economics and computer science. You could work on NLP/AI type startups and data analysis. One startup that comes to mind is: <a href="https://wit.ai/jobs" rel="nofollow">https://wit.ai/jobs</a>
That is probably one of the easiest combinations to get a career right now. Hedge funds, other investment companies, pretty much all the finance industry is on the hunt for people who know a lot of about computer science and have interest in economics or finance. Maybe it's just an east coast thing but it seems like half of job postings for Python are along these lines.
Apart from big finance / trading corporations there are quite a few smaller companies building SaaS software in finance. Also, multiplayer games with trading.<p>Personally, I like Economics problems too but chose to focus on software development a long time ago. The alternative to me at the time was finance with VBA / MS Access coding sprinkled in. No thanks.