Internship, Quantitative Research and Trading – 2027
A 4 to 6 month European internship placing students in a systematic team on either research or trading. It sits in a global quantitative investment manager with some permanent opportunities.
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 datasets and build predictive signals
- Iterate on tests to filter signals from noise
- Track production signal behaviour and performance
- Investigate strategies live to make them more robust
What they ask for
Required
- Penultimate or final-year degree student
- Quantitative foundations
- Coding in Python, C++ or C#
- Rigorous problem solving
- Communication
Preferred
- Statistics, machine learning, NLP or AI
- Large-dataset experience
- Education
- Penultimate or final-year bachelor's, master's or PhD students, ideally in a quantitative field.
- Experience
- Students; no prior experience stated
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- multi-asset
How to prepare
- Build a small signal-research project with proper train/test splits
- Revise statistics and time-series basics
- Practise coding assessments in Python
- Try a public quant data challenge
What to study
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
- Quantitative Research, Data and Backtesting
- Python for Quantitative Finance
- Econometrics and Financial Time Series
- Financial Machine Learning
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Qube Research & Technologies and doesn’t handle applications.