Quantitative Trading Systems Engineer Intern

P2P; New York (NY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Internship completion bonus

Job summary

Brevan Howard is offering a Summer Internship Program in New York for penultimate-year undergraduates or first-year master's/PhD students. You’ll work on real-time trading platforms, market data pipelines, and development tooling alongside senior engineers and traders.

The program includes a one-week training, exposure to AI tools and LLMs, and a path toward the 2028 Graduate Program. Expect hands-on experience across design, implementation, deployment, and production support.

Qualifications

• Penultimate year undergraduate/junior or 1st year master’s/PhD student at a recognized University — completed and awarded before July 2028.
• Strong mathematical, quantitative, problem-solving capabilities, and technical skills in Excel, VBA, and R.
• Programming experience in Java; familiarity with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Linux, Git and SQL is a plus.
• Interest in building reliable, low-latency systems and understanding complex systems in real conditions.
• Interest and passion for financial markets, trading, and financial products.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Entrepreneurial spirit.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend real-time services for order execution and trading workflow.
• Work on market data capture, normalization and delivery to systematic strategies.
• Develop tooling and interfaces used daily by portfolio managers and traders.
• Contribute tests, instrumentation and monitoring for production trading systems.

Skills

Mathematical proficiency

Quantitative skills

Problem solving

Excel

VBA

R

Python

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Linux

Git

SQL

Education

Penultimate year undergrad / 1st year master's/PhD student

Tools

Java

Python

Job description

Brevan Howard is offering a Summer Internship Program in New York for penultimate-year undergraduates or first-year master's/PhD students. You’ll work on real-time trading platforms, market data pipelines, and development tooling alongside senior engineers and traders.

The program includes a one-week training, exposure to AI tools and LLMs, and a path toward the 2028 Graduate Program. Expect hands-on experience across design, implementation, deployment, and production support.