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2027 Summer Internship Program – Trading

A summer internship in Brevan Howard's macro hedge fund, working with front-office staff on data, models and AI tools. It starts with a week of training on markets and is a route to the 2028 Graduate Program.

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.

Build data pipelines and models to support portfolio manager decisions
Develop AI-powered tools using LLMs and agent workflows
Contribute to the shared analytics library used by quants and PMs
Learn the desk's products and risk processes during training

What they ask for

Required

Penultimate-year undergraduate or first-year master's/PhD student
Strong maths and problem solving
Technical skills such as Excel, VBA, R, AI and ML
Interest in markets, trading and products
Independent and team working
Strong English communication

Education: Penultimate-year undergraduate or first-year master's or PhD student, graduating before July 2028
Experience: Students; no prior experience stated
Languages and tools: Excel/VBA
R
Python
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Learn the basics of macro products: rates, FX, bonds and credit
Build a small macro data pipeline and signal in Python or R
Try an LLM-based tool for summarising research and test its errors
Practise Excel and VBA modelling
Follow macro news and form a view you can defend

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