Quant jobs / Tower Research Capital

Quantitative Developer Intern – Summer 2027

A summer internship for developers on a high-frequency trading team. It mixes systems work with trading analysis.

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.

Work on low-latency trading and training systems
Analyse data for patterns and do post-trade analysis
Build and calibrate exchange simulators
Help operate the team's strategies

What they ask for

Required

Bachelor's, master's or PhD student
Object-oriented programming (C++ or Python)
Linux/Unix
Problem solving
Interest in markets

Preferred

Industry experience
Olympiads or teaching
ML and data modelling

Education: Student in computer science, maths, physics, electrical engineering or related.
Experience: Students
Languages and tools: C++
Python

How to prepare

Build a toy exchange simulator
Write fast C++ with profiling
Practise Linux command line
Study order-book mechanics

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.