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Public quant internship repository, maintained by NUFT but available for everyone.

Summer 2024 Quant Internships

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(Format forked from QuantStart. Updated and Maintained by the Northwestern Fintech Club.)

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✅ = Company offers role and applications are open → click on the checkmark for a link to the job posting

✔️ = Company offers role but applications are not open yet

SWE = Software Engineering or Quantitative Development

QR = Quantitative Research

QT = Quantitative Trading

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Company	Location	SWE	QR	QT	Status	Notes
Akuna Capital	Chicago					Apply early!
Ansatz Capital	NYC					Very Small
Aquatic	Chicago
AQR	Greenwich
BAM
Arrowstreet Capital	Boston					Highest Interview Difficulty
Belvedere Trading	Chicago
Bridgewater	Westport					Day Ralio's firm. Very unique culture.
Citadel	Chicago, NYC					The hedge fund side of Ken Griffin's Citadel. The quants are mostly on the Global Quantitative Strategies team (GQS). Citadel tends to be fairly school-selective.
Citadel Securities	Chicago, NYC					The market making arm of Citadel. The general perception is that the culture tends to be better at Citadel Securities vs Citadel LLC. A good way to get into the interview pipeline is through Citadel's Data Open competition.
Chicago Trading Company	Chicago
Cubist	New York City					The quant arm of Steve Cohen's Point72 hedge fund.
DE Shaw				✅		Tends to be extremely school-selective, mostly recruiting from ivy leagues and similar.
DRW	Chicago					Perception is that DRWers tend to have a good WLB but teams are usually siloed. One of the first traditional firms that started going into crypto.
Five Rings	NYC					Very school-selective.
Flow Traders	NYC					Primary focus is on ETFs. Pay tends be lower than IMC and Optiver but the office is NYC instead of Chicago.
G-Research	London					Also hires people out of the US. Very focused on research with a lot of people working on cutting-edge Machine Learning.
Geneva Trading	Chicago
GSA Capital	NYC
Headlands Tech	Chicago					Founded by ex-Citadel people. Max Dama works here. Similarly to Ansatz, Aquatic, and Radix, a small firm that is willing to pay more than most competitors. Known to have a large focus on C++, both among QRs and SWEs.
HRT	Chicago, NYC					The Algo Dev role at HRT is essentially Quantitative Research. HRT's culture seems to be pretty similar to JS and pay is similar too. HRT has a bigger focus on ML with their dedicated HRT AI Labs. HRT, JS and Two Sigma are also known to recruit QRs out of undergrad.
IMC Trading	Chicago					Word is that IMC has the chillest culture out of the three big dutch firms (IMC, Optiver, Flow Traders). Pay tends to be in between Flow Traders and Optiver. Tends to be more focused on the quantitative side than Optiver and Flow. Has one of the highest intern salaries.
Jane Street	NYC					Founded by ex-SIG people. Tends to be more school-agnostic than other firms. Also offers a lot of first-round interviews. General perception of JS is that it has a very comfortable and quirky culture. Specializes in market making.
Jump Trading	Chicago					Fairly school-selective recruiting. Very engineering-focused with siloed teams.
Mako Trading	London
Marshall Wace	NYC
Maven Securities	London					Founded by ex-optiver traders.
Millenium	NYC
Old Mission	Chicago, NYC					Takes 4 total for a winter internship.
Optiver	Chicago				Only takes '24 grad dates, despite what the application says.	Tends to have the highest pay out of the three big dutch firms (IMC, Optiver, Flow Traders) due their marble bonus system. Larger focus on traders. Traders generally tend to earn considerably more than SWEs at the Dutch firms, especially over time. QR roles are open for graduate students
PDT Partners	NYC					Founded by Pete Muller, very collaborative and secretive culture similar to Rentech. Recruits college students for mainly SWE but some SWE/QR combo roles (dependent on team). Exclusively recruits PhD students for full-time QR roles.
Peak6	Chicago					The internships are geared towards women. The new grad roles are open to everyone.
QuantLab	Houston
Radix Labs	Chicago	✅		✅		Founded by ex-Citadel people. Radix calls SWEs Quantitative Technologists. They don't publicize internships but they do select a handful of interns every year. Just email your resume. Rumor is that they offer the highest internship salaries. Culture is likely most similar to Renaissance.
Renaissance	Setauket- East Setauket					The legendary OG quant fund (medallion). Good luck with this one. You can email your resume and they do sometimes interview normal SWEs but it's very unlikely you'll get an interview for any other role unless you're extra-extraordinary.
Schonfeld
Seven Eight	NYC
SIG	Bala Cynwyd					Has a huge poker culture. Fairly chill culture but pay tends to be on the lower side.
Squarepoint	NYC
TGS	Irvine					TOP TOP TOP Tier.
Tower Research	NYC					Pretty traditional portfolio manager culture.
TransMarketGroup	Chicago
Two Sigma	NYC					Founded by ex-DE-Shaw people. Collaborative and chill culture. The org is mostly composed of QRs and SWEs. More of a quant hedge fund, with a a smaller market making arm and a venture capital team.
Valkyrie Trading	Chicago
Vatic Labs	NYC					Founded by ex-Jump people.
Virtu Financial	NYC, Austin
Voleon	Berkeley					Specializes in Machine Learning and recruits college students for SWE roles but primarily recruits PhD students for research roles.
Wolverine	Chicago
WorldQuant	NYC
XTX Markets(https://www.xtxmarkets.com/#careers)	London					Branched out of GSA capital.