Fixed Income Analytics Intern — Data-Driven Markets

Schonfeld; New York (NY); On-site; USD 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Schonfeld is seeking a highly quantitative intern to join the DMFI Strategies in New York. You will work with a small, high-impact team on data-driven analysis across fixed income and macro markets, alongside the Portfolio Manager, gaining exposure to live trading and the end-to-end investment process.

The internship runs for 10 weeks, pairing you with a manager and mentor, with hands-on sessions and opportunities to engage senior leaders. The firm emphasizes learning, collaboration, and impact.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a highly quantitative disciplined degree.
• Strong Python programming skills with significant experience on data-driven projects (data manipulation, visualisation, statistical modelling).
• Solid grounding in quantitative analysis techniques — 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 strong communication skills.
• A software engineering mindset — care about code quality, testing, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain fixed income analytics, valuation tools, and relative value frameworks used in idea generation and portfolio monitoring.
• Develop research pipelines and tooling for data ingestion, analytics, backtesting, and risk analysis.
• Analyse relative value opportunities across rates and fixed income markets using quantitative and statistical techniques.
• Work with the PM to formalise trading intuition into quantitative models and repeatable research processes.
• Improve the robustness, scalability, and maintainability of the team's codebase and analytical stack.

Skills

Python

Data analysis

Quantitative methods

Financial markets

Education

Quantitative degree

Job description

Schonfeld is seeking a highly quantitative intern to join the DMFI Strategies in New York. You will work with a small, high-impact team on data-driven analysis across fixed income and macro markets, alongside the Portfolio Manager, gaining exposure to live trading and the end-to-end investment process.

The internship runs for 10 weeks, pairing you with a manager and mentor, with hands-on sessions and opportunities to engage senior leaders. The firm emphasizes learning, collaboration, and impact.