Quant jobs / Virtu Financial

Quantitative Trading Internship – 2027

A 10-week summer internship on the trading side of a market maker running algorithmic strategies. Interns work on project menus from desks such as FX, fixed income, options, ETFs and energy.

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.

Solve real trading problems alongside senior traders
Work through a menu of projects across desks
Learn how the trading technology interacts with markets
Help improve automated strategies

What they ask for

Required

Strong academic record, hard sciences preferred
Outstanding quantitative problem solving
Some programming experience
Self-starting and tenacious
Team player

Preferred

Python, SQL, Java or C++

Education: Strong academic background, hard sciences such as physics, engineering, maths or statistics preferred
Experience: Rising juniors, or students ready for full-time work between December 2027 and June 2028
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Java
C++
Markets: fx, fixed-income, options, equities, commodities

How to prepare

Practise probability and expected-value puzzles
Learn how market makers earn the spread and manage inventory
Write small Python analyses of market data
Study FX, rates and options basics

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 Virtu Financial and doesn’t handle applications.