Intern - Finance Engineer

About the role

A 12-week London internship within LSEG’s Post Trade Engineering division, where you will join the Optimisation Strats Team. You will work with financial engineers and Product Development colleagues to improve optimisation services using algorithms, quantitative models, large datasets, and Python-based software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement improvements to optimisation services with a team of four to six financial engineers.
• Develop scaling schemes, mixed-integer models, validation functionality, and performance-enhancing heuristics.
• Investigate solution sensitivity, constraint relaxation, runtime performance, and data-processing requirements.
• Refactor code to share functionality and business logic across asset classes.
• Collaborate with Product Development to respond to client feedback, run analysis, and strategic projects.

Eligibility and programme details

• The programme starts in June 2027 and lasts 12 weeks in the London office.
• Applicants should be in their undergraduate penultimate year or final year and continuing to a Master’s degree.
• Eligible fields include mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, or other quantitative disciplines.
• Candidates should have unrestricted work rights in London or New York for the internship duration.

Recruitment process

• Submit one application and resume; multiple applications result in review of the first application only.
• Complete technical and coding assessments covering coding ability, logical reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
• Complete an untimed immersive online assessment and a strength-based video interview.
• Attend a virtual half-day assessment centre involving several exercises.