Quant Finance Intern: Fixed Income & Macro Analytics

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

Job summary

Schonfeld is seeking a talented student to join the DMFI Strategies team in New York. You will work alongside the Portfolio Manager on data-driven analysis of fixed income and macro markets, gaining exposure to live trading and the investment process.

During the 10-week Summer Internship, you will build analytics, pipelines, and models, collaborating with senior leaders and mentors to develop practical solutions and accelerate your finance career.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a highly quantitative degree.
• Strong Python programming skills with data-focused experience.
• Solid grounding in statistics, linear algebra, and numerical methods.
• Genuine interest in financial markets, especially fixed income and macro.
• Excellent attention to detail and communication skills.
• Software engineering mindset with focus on code quality, testing, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain fixed income analytics, valuation tools, and relative value frameworks.
• Develop research pipelines and tooling for data ingestion, analytics, backtesting, and risk analysis.
• Analyse relative value opportunities across rates and fixed income with quantitative methods.
• Collaborate 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 analytics stack.

Skills

Python

Data-driven projects

Statistics

Linear algebra

Numerical methods

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Software engineering mindset

Education

Quantitative degree

Job description

Schonfeld is seeking a talented student to join the DMFI Strategies team in New York. You will work alongside the Portfolio Manager on data-driven analysis of fixed income and macro markets, gaining exposure to live trading and the investment process.

During the 10-week Summer Internship, you will build analytics, pipelines, and models, collaborating with senior leaders and mentors to develop practical solutions and accelerate your finance career.