Quantitative Research Intern 2027
A summer research internship with structured training, a real research project and mentoring from senior staff. It is aimed at penultimate-year students and gives a route into a graduate quant role.
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.
- Complete the training programme on trading, statistics and ML
- Tackle a research project such as a predictive model or an alternative-data idea
- Explore large financial datasets and look for patterns
- Present findings to technical and non-technical colleagues
What they ask for
Required
- Studying a bachelor's, master's or PhD in a highly quantitative field
- Started penultimate year
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Programming ability, preferably Python
- Clear communication of complex ideas
Preferred
- C++, Java, MATLAB or R
- Education
- Currently studying for a bachelor's, master's or PhD in maths, statistics, CS, physics or engineering
- Experience
- Students; no experience required
- Languages and tools
How to prepare
- Do a small end-to-end project: gather data, build a model, test it and write it up
- Practise statistics for noisy data, including regression and hypothesis tests
- Get fluent in pandas and numpy
- Read an introduction to market making and market structure
What to study
The Quantitative Researcher roadmap sets out the stages for this kind of role, with free resources for each.
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with IMC Trading and doesn’t handle applications.