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2027 Summer Internship – Trading

A summer internship on a Brevan Howard front-office trading team, using quantitative and ML methods to support portfolio managers. It sits inside a global macro hedge fund that runs both systematic and discretionary strategies.

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 that pull in and analyse prices, macro indicators and news for a portfolio manager
Prototype and backtest trading signals on a desk project
Add functions to the shared analytics library used by quants and PMs
Build small LLM-powered research tools and agent workflows for the desk
Present a short project result to the team at the end of the summer

What they ask for

Required

Strong maths and quantitative problem-solving
Excel and VBA
R
Machine learning basics
Interest in financial markets and products
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: Python
R
VBA
Excel
Markets: multi-asset, fx, fixed-income, credit, crypto

How to prepare

Build a small Python pipeline that downloads macro and price data, cleans it and plots it
Backtest one simple signal (for example momentum on rates or FX) and report the pitfalls honestly
Learn the basics of rates, FX, credit and bond pricing so the one-week training makes sense
Try an LLM-assisted research workflow, and be ready to explain where it fails
Practise explaining a quantitative result to a non-specialist in two minutes

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