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Quantitative Research Internship, Bachelor or Master (Summer 2027)

An eight-week summer research internship at a market maker in Shanghai, with lectures followed by placement in a research team. Strong interns may be offered a graduate researcher job.

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.

Take trading lectures on options pricing, markets and strategy
Use statistical and machine-learning models to support existing trading models
Build risk and portfolio optimisation tools for execution algorithms
Analyse high-frequency data and microstructure to find opportunities
Help check pricing engines and test changes with developers

What they ask for

Required

Bachelor's or Master's student in a quantitative major
Strong probability and statistics
Programming in any language, ideally Python
Experience with large datasets
Ability to run a project alone in a short time
Clear written and spoken English

Preferred

Machine learning
Time-series analysis

Education: Bachelor's or Master's student in a quantitative field.
Experience: Students graduating in 2028 or later
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Java
C

How to prepare

Revise probability and statistics, then apply them to a market dataset
Build a small Python project on a large dataset and write up what you found
Learn the basics of option pricing and stochastic models
Study introductory market microstructure and high-frequency data

What to study

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