Quant Research Internship: Microstructure, ML & Execution

Tower Research Capital

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 18,000 - 24,000

Full time

14 days+

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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.