Intern – Equity Derivatives Quantitative Pricing
An internship in the equity derivatives financial engineering team in New York, pricing and modelling structured notes and equity derivatives. You would work with structurers, traders and quant researchers.
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.
- Price structured notes with path-dependent and complex optionality
- Build tools to measure Greeks, volatility, correlation and dividend sensitivities
- Implement Monte Carlo and semi-analytical pricing methods in Python
- Compare models and assumptions to see how they change prices and risk
- Help automate pricing and analytics for the desk
What they ask for
Required
- Strong quantitative background
- Option theory and derivatives pricing
- Monte Carlo and numerical methods
- Python
- Greeks and volatility
- Interest in structured products
- Education
- Not stated; suited to students with a strong quantitative background
- Experience
- Students; no prior experience stated
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities, options
How to prepare
- Implement Black-Scholes and a Monte Carlo pricer for path-dependent options
- Learn local and stochastic volatility models and why they matter for structured notes
- Study autocallables and barrier products and how to hedge them
- Compute Greeks by bumping and by pathwise methods
- Package your pricer as a clean Python library with tests
What to study
- Derivatives Pricing and Computational Finance
- Advanced Derivatives and Exotic Options
- Python for Quantitative Finance
- Linear Algebra, Optimisation and Numerical Methods
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Société Générale and doesn’t handle applications.