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2027 Summer Internship – Systematic Data Strategy

A summer internship in the data sourcing and strategy team of Brevan Howard's systematic business, which finds, evaluates and manages data for investment teams. It works closely with investment professionals on what data they need.

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.

Assess new alternative and traditional datasets for coverage and usefulness
Help manage a data acquisition project from vendor trial to delivery
Gather data requirements from a portfolio team and map them to candidate sources
Clean and document datasets so researchers can use them
Summarise findings for investment professionals

What they ask for

Required

Strong maths and quantitative problem-solving
Excel and VBA
R
Interest in financial markets and products
Professional communication with internal and external clients
Clear written and spoken English
Enrolled as penultimate-year undergraduate, or first-year master's/PhD

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

How to prepare

Take one public alternative dataset and write a short quality report on its gaps and biases
Learn how point-in-time data and look-ahead bias work
Practise data cleaning and joining with pandas and SQL
Read how data vendors package datasets and what to ask in a trial
Write a one-page data requirements brief for an imaginary strategy

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