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Programme
Internship
Location
New York City, NY
Duration
10 weeks
About the role
Join Schonfeld’s 10-week New York internship within Discretionary Macro and Fixed Income Strategies. Work alongside a Portfolio Manager on data-driven fixed-income and macro analysis, relative-value research, live trading, quantitative models, analytics, and production-quality tooling.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain fixed-income analytics, valuation tools, and relative-value frameworks for idea generation and portfolio monitoring.
- Develop research pipelines and production-quality tools for data ingestion, analytics, backtesting, and risk analysis.
- Analyze relative-value opportunities across rates and fixed-income markets using quantitative and statistical techniques.
- Work with the Portfolio Manager to formalize trading intuition into quantitative models and repeatable research processes.
- Improve the robustness, scalability, and maintainability of the team’s codebase and analytical stack.
Internship Experience
- Join a small, high-impact team and gain exposure to live trading, macro analysis, and the investment process.
- Receive guidance from a dedicated manager and mentor throughout the internship and beyond.
- Attend senior-leader learning sessions, hands-on skills workshops, networking events, and broader firm activities.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a highly quantitative degree.
- Strong Python programming skills and significant data-driven project experience involving manipulation, visualization, and statistical modeling.
- Comfortable with statistics, linear algebra, and numerical methods.
- Genuine enthusiasm for financial markets, particularly fixed income and macro.
- Excellent attention to detail, intellectual curiosity, and communication skills.
- Software engineering mindset focused on code quality, testing, and maintainability.