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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 work experience before the master's
- 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
- 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
- Empirical Asset Pricing and Factor Investing
- Quantitative Research, Data and Backtesting
- Portfolio Theory and Quantitative Investment
- Python for Quantitative Finance
- Financial Machine Learning
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