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Programme
Internship
Location
New York City, NY
Duration
10 weeks
About the role
Join Schonfeld’s data science team in New York for a 10-week summer internship supporting proprietary datasets, data analytics, quantitative research, and alpha generation. You’ll optimize ingestion pipelines, create features and signals, collaborate with engineers and portfolio managers, and validate investment ideas through backtesting across financial asset classes.
Responsibilities
- Optimize data ingestion pipelines with engineering teams to ensure high-quality data inputs.
- Collaborate with portfolio managers to extract insights and generate features or signals for alpha generation.
- Develop expertise across financial asset classes and produce curated datasets for standardized research.
- Conduct quantitative analysis, generate investment ideas, and validate hypotheses through backtesting.
Internship Experience
- Work on real-world challenges and build solutions with a close-knit, supportive team.
- Receive guidance from a dedicated manager and mentor throughout the internship and beyond.
- Attend senior leader learning sessions, hands-on skills workshops, and networking events.
- Gain insight into how different functions support the firm.