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2027 PhD Centralized Research Intern

A summer internship for economics PhD students in the central research team of Schonfeld's discretionary macro and fixed income division. Output feeds portfolio managers' decisions.

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.

Build quantitative models for growth, inflation, labour markets and policy
Do empirical research on topics such as policy transmission and term premia
Develop data and analytics tools for the wider research team
Present findings to researchers and portfolio managers

What they ask for

Required

Macroeconomic theory
Applied econometrics (time series, panel data, causal inference)
Python, R or MATLAB
Interest in markets
Attention to detail
Communication

Preferred

Prior research assistantship or finance/policy experience

Education: Currently pursuing a PhD in economics, financial economics or a related quantitative field.
Experience: PhD students
Languages and tools: Python
R
MATLAB
Markets: fixed-income, fx, multi-asset

How to prepare

Replicate a macro time-series result such as a Taylor-rule or term-premium estimate
Revise VAR models, panel regressions and causal inference methods
Learn how macro data releases move rates and FX
Build a small macro dashboard in Python or R

What to study

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