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2027 Quantitative Masters Internship – Quantitative Investing

A summer internship for quantitative master's students in BlackRock Systematic, with projects across factors, systematic active equity and fixed income. It is aimed at future quant investors.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Work on a research or client-related project within a systematic team
Translate statistical models into Python code
Analyse large datasets for investment signals
Join daily market updates to see how portfolios trade
Present findings to the team

What they ask for

Required

Enrolled in a quantitative master's programme graduating Sep 2027 to Jul 2028
Relevant pre-master's work experience
Python
Comfort with large datasets
Problem-solving and communication

Preferred

Enthusiasm for AI and machine learning

Education: Master's student in analytics, computational finance, financial engineering, maths or similar
Experience: Students with relevant pre-master's work experience
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: multi-asset, equities, fixed-income

How to prepare

Replicate a classic factor strategy (value or momentum) in Python
Practise cleaning and joining large financial datasets
Learn the basics of portfolio construction and risk models
Read a primer on systematic equity and fixed income investing
Prepare a short project walk-through for interviews

What to study

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