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Quantitative Research Intern (PhD) – Summer 2027

A 10-week summer research internship for PhD students, with mentoring, project work and teaching on options theory and market making. Interns who perform well may be offered a graduate quant researcher 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.

Work with a mentor on a real research project
Build analysis tools that may be deployed in production
Learn options theory through classroom training
Study market making and trade analysis

What they ask for

Required

Graduating between September 2027 and July 2028
Studying for a PhD in a quantitative field
Strong numerical and analytical thinking
Passion for research and hard problems
Programming experience in Python, C or C++ is highly desired

Education: PhD student in maths, engineering, statistics, physics, CS or a similar field
Experience: Students; no experience required
Languages and tools: Python
C
C++
Markets: options

How to prepare

Learn the basics of options and the Greeks
Prepare to explain how your PhD research transfers to noisy financial data
Practise probability and mental-maths problems
Complete a small data analysis project in Python

What to study

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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.