Quantitative Masters Intern – Technology, Analytics & Modeling (2027)
A master's-level internship in the Aladdin Financial Engineering group, which builds the risk and analytics models inside BlackRock's Aladdin platform. Interns may join the quantitative research and modelling team or the portfolio analytics group.
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.
- Write Python code to implement or test part of an Aladdin analytics model
- Build analytics that answer a question for an investment or client team
- Learn how security valuation and portfolio risk models are structured across asset classes
- Work with investment and business teams to turn their needs into a usable tool
What they ask for
Required
- Enrolled in a quantitative master's (analytics, computational finance, financial engineering, maths)
- Graduating between September 2027 and July 2028
- Relevant work experience before the master's
- Intermediate coding, Python preferred
- Applying analytical techniques to financial problems
- Financial acumen and critical thinking
- Education
- Current master's student in analytics, computational finance, financial engineering, maths or a similar quantitative subject
- Experience
- Master's students with some work experience before the degree
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- fixed-income, equities, multi-asset
How to prepare
- Implement a bond pricer and duration/convexity calculations in Python
- Study how portfolio risk is measured (VaR, factor exposures, performance attribution)
- Learn the basics of fixed-income and equity products
- Write clean, tested code and be ready to explain your modelling choices
What to study
- Fixed Income and Interest-Rate Models
- Quantitative Risk Management
- Python for Quantitative Finance
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
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