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2027 Summer Internship – Systematic Execution Research

A summer internship in the execution research group of Brevan Howard's systematic business, which measures and improves how the firm's orders get traded. It sits alongside the portfolio and trading teams that rely on those execution algorithms.

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.

Measure execution performance against benchmarks across asset classes
Build reports and frameworks that compare different execution strategies
Apply statistical methods to large trade and market datasets
Look for improvements to existing trading algorithms and test them
Query and clean trade data using SQL or KDB/q

What they ask for

Required

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

Preferred

Linux
SQL
KDB/q

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: Python
R
VBA
Excel
SQL
KDB+/q
Markets: equities, futures, fx, fixed-income

How to prepare

Run a transaction-cost analysis in Python on public or simulated trade data (slippage, implementation shortfall)
Learn how limit order books work and how common execution algorithms (TWAP, VWAP) behave
Practise SQL on time-series data and try a first KDB/q tutorial
Write a short report comparing two execution strategies, with confidence intervals
Study basic market impact models, such as square-root impact

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