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Quantitative Trader/Researcher Summer Internship 2027 (TACTIC)

A rotational summer internship for penultimate-year students across two trading teams. It starts with two weeks of shared teaching.

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.

Help build and deploy algorithms in two teams
Refine strategies with mentors
Analyse market data for ideas
Build tools to find signals

What they ask for

Required

Penultimate-year student
Quantitative degree
Python and/or C++
Problem solving
Collaboration

Education: Penultimate-year bachelor's, master's or PhD student in maths, statistics, physics, engineering, computer science, data science or financial engineering.
Experience: Penultimate-year students
Languages and tools: Python
C++

How to prepare

Build a signal project in Python
Practise probability
Study quant finance basics
Review C++ or Python

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.