Quant Research Internship: Microstructure, ML & Execution

Tower Research Capital; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off policies

Savings plans and other financial well

Hybrid working opportunities

Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks

In-office wellness experiences

Company-sponsored sports teams and фит

Volunteer opportunities and charitable

Social events and learning

Workshops and continuous learning

Job summary

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm offering an internship on our Central Execution Desk. You will work on cutting-edge execution research, modeling, and evaluation of execution performance within a global, collaborative team.

The role emphasizes research, data analysis, and practical impact on trading systems. We seek a current PhD student in a quantitative field with strong math, statistics, optimization, and ML foundations, plus experience in Python, C++, or Rust.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in a quantitative field at a top-tier university.
• Strong grounding in mathematics, statistics, optimization, and machine learning.
• Experience with data-mining and analysis.
• Programming skills in Python, C++, or Rust.
• Interest in market microstructure and quantitative trading.
• Familiarity with large financial datasets is a plus but not required.
• Internship start within 6 months preferred.

Responsibilities

• Explore execution ideas by analyzing market microstructure for liquidity patterns.
• Build tools, simulations, and analytics to support trading decisions.
• Contribute to research libraries and production workflows for execution analysis.
• Design and evaluate models; perform causal analysis.
• Work with large, noisy data and build data-processing pipelines.

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

Mathematics

Statistics

Machine Learning

Data Mining

Education

PhD student in Mathematics/Statistics/CS/Financial Engineering/Physics/OR/Economics

Job description

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm offering an internship on our Central Execution Desk. You will work on cutting-edge execution research, modeling, and evaluation of execution performance within a global, collaborative team.

The role emphasizes research, data analysis, and practical impact on trading systems. We seek a current PhD student in a quantitative field with strong math, statistics, optimization, and ML foundations, plus experience in Python, C++, or Rust.