Quant jobs / Tower Research Capital

Quantitative Developer Intern

A 10-week internship building Python tools for a trading desk's quant researchers. It suits students in computing, engineering or maths.

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 Python tools used across the research process
Design workflows with researchers to evaluate strategies
Learn workflow orchestration and production practices
Iterate quickly on researcher feedback

What they ask for

Required

Final-year bachelor's or master's student
10 weeks' availability
Solid Python
Interest in quant finance and software
Communication

Preferred

C++
Bash

Education: Final-year bachelor's or master's in computer science, engineering, applied maths or similar.
Experience: Students; coursework or personal projects suffice
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Bash

How to prepare

Build a small Python research tool with pandas or Polars
Make a simple backtest project
Learn Git and Bash
Read introductory quant finance

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Tower Research Capital and doesn’t handle applications.