Quant jobs / Schonfeld

2027 PhD Quantitative Research Intern

A 10-week internship for PhD students on Schonfeld's quantitative research teams in the Miami area. Interns do alpha research for live trading strategies.

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.

Understand a fundamental domain and what alternative data says about it
Design predictive signals
Backtest and validate hypotheses
Work with senior researchers on production-relevant ideas

What they ask for

Required

PhD in progress in a quantitative field
Python, C, C++, Java, SQL or R
Probability and statistics
Machine learning and time-series analysis
Real-world datasets
Clear communication

Preferred

Prior finance experience
Advanced degree

Education: Current PhD student in statistics, maths, physics, electrical engineering, computer science or similar, ideally one year from finishing.
Experience: PhD students
Languages and tools: Python
C
C++
Java
SQL
R

How to prepare

Run a full alpha research project on public data, from hypothesis to backtest
Revise time-series forecasting and pattern recognition methods
Study how alternative data is cleaned and mapped to securities
Prepare a short talk on your research project

What to study

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