Quant jobs / Citadel Securities

Trading Fundamental Analyst – Intern (US)

This Citadel Securities internship blends company research with quantitative trading. Analysts study events and data to forecast price behaviour and develop tradable ideas.

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.

Investigate industry and event risks.
Convert unstructured information into signals.
Discuss pricing discrepancies with traders.

What they ask for

Required

Interest in markets
Quantitative reasoning
Structured decisions under uncertainty
Logical reasoning

Preferred

Intermediate programming
Python

Education: No degree requirement is stated.
Experience: An 11-week internship; no prior-work minimum stated.
Languages and tools: Python

How to prepare

Study how news changes return distributions.
Test an event-driven signal without future-data leakage.
Practise expressing a forecast as probabilities.

What to study

The Quantitative Researcher roadmap sets out the stages for this kind of role, with free resources for each.

Open the roadmap

Apply

Read the full posting on Citadel Securities’s site before applying: requirements, location and pay can change after we check them.

View the posting on Citadel Securities’s site ↗

SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Citadel Securities and doesn’t handle applications.