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Quantitative Research Intern – Equities (Summer 2027)

A summer research internship on the equities desk of a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm. You would build predictive signals from market data alongside senior researchers and traders.

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.

Explore order-book and longer-horizon market data to find candidate predictive signals
Backtest signal ideas in a simulation environment and iterate on the results
Fit tree-based and other machine learning models to improve signal quality
Help maintain data pipelines for large high-frequency time-series datasets
Present findings to traders and turn them into strategy proposals

What they ask for

Required

Python with pandas and NumPy
Statistics and quantitative analysis
Interest in market microstructure
Currently studying a quantitative degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
Clear communication of technical results

Preferred

High-frequency orderbook research
Longer-horizon signal generation
Tree-based machine learning

Education: Currently enrolled in a bachelor's, master's or PhD in maths, statistics, CS, physics, engineering or financial engineering
Experience: Students graduating 2027 or 2028; research experience from projects or internships helps
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build a small signal-research project on public limit-order-book or intraday data and backtest it honestly
Practise gradient-boosted trees on noisy financial features and study overfitting
Read up on market microstructure basics such as spreads, queues and adverse selection
Be fluent in pandas and NumPy for large time-series data

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