Summer 2026 Quant Internships

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Akuna Capital

Website: Akuna Capital

Locations: Chicago

Notes:

Role	Links
SWE	✅ C++    ✅ Python
QR	✅

Ansatz Capital

Website: Ansatz Capital

Locations: NYC

Notes: Very Small, Citadel Spinoff.

Role	Links

AQR

Website: AQR

Locations: Greenwich, CT

Notes:

Role	Links

Aquatic

Website: Aquatic

Locations: Chicago

Notes: Very Small, Citadel Spinoff.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅
BizOps (AI/LLM)	✅

Arrowstreet Capital

Website: Arrowstreet Capital

Locations: Boston

Notes: Fully Systematic. Very High PnL per head.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅

Belvedere Trading

Website: Belvedere Trading

Locations: Chicago

Notes:

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QT	✅

Blackedge Capital

Website: Blackedge Capital

Locations: Chicago

Notes:

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QT	✅

Bridgewater

Website: Bridgewater

Locations: Westport, CT

Notes: Ray Dalio's firm. Very unique culture and interviews. Very School Selective.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅

Campbell and Company

Website: Campbell and Company

Locations: Baltimore, MD

Notes: This small 60 employee multi-strat quant firm has an extremely collaborative culture.

Role	Links

Chicago Trading Company

Website: Chicago Trading Company

Locations: Chicago

Notes: Very trader led shop. Shares an office with Group One Trading.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QT	✅

Citadel / Citadel Securities

Website: Citadel / Citadel Securities

Locations: Chicago, NYC

Notes: The market making arm of Citadel. The general perception is that the culture tends to be better at Citadel Securities vs Citadel LLC.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅
QT	✅

Website:

Locations: Chicago, NYC

Notes: The hedge fund side of Ken Griffin's Citadel. The quants are mostly on the Global Quantitative Strategies team (GQS). Citadel tends to be fairly school-selective.

Role	Links

Cubist

Website: Cubist

Locations: New York City

Notes: The quant arm of Steve Cohen's Point72 hedge fund. Pretty small and school selective.

Role	Links
SWE	✅

DE Shaw

Website: DE Shaw

Locations: NYC

Notes: Tends to be extremely school-selective, mostly recruiting from ivy leagues and similar. Generally considered a top destination for QRs, more so than other roles.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QT	✅

DRW

Website: DRW

Locations: Chicago

Notes: Perception is that DRWers tend to have a good WLB but teams are usually siloed. Known for their PM type culture and relatively fluid roles.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅
QT	✅

Five Rings

Website: Five Rings

Locations: NYC

Notes: Extremely school-selective - generally MIT only.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅
QT	✅

Flow Traders

Website: Flow Traders

Locations: NYC

Notes: Based in Amsterdam, where there are SWE roles. US internships are for traders. Primary focus is on ETFs. Pay tends be lower than IMC and Optiver. One of the only publicly traded quant funds.

Role	Links
QT	✅

G-Research

Website: G-Research

Locations: London

Notes: Also hires people out of the US. Very focused on research with a lot of people working on cutting-edge Machine Learning.

Role	Links

Geneva Trading

Website: Geneva Trading

Locations: Chicago

Notes:

Role	Links
QT	✅

GSA Capital

Website: GSA Capital

Locations: NYC

Notes:

Role	Links
QR	✅

HAP Capital

Website: HAP Capital

Locations: NYC

Notes: Another options market maker. Less known than (IMC, Optiver, ...) but well known in the OMM circle.

Role	Links

Headlands Tech

Website: Headlands Tech

Locations: Chicago

Notes: Founded by ex-Citadel people. Max Dama works here. Similarly to Ansatz, Aquatic, and Radix, a small firm that is willing to pay more than most competitors. Known to have a large focus on C++, both among QRs and SWEs.

Role	Links

Hudson River Trading

Website: Hudson River Trading

Locations: NYC

Notes: The Algo Dev role at HRT is essentially Quantitative Research. HRT's culture seems to be pretty similar to JS and pay is similar too. HRT has a bigger focus on ML with their dedicated HRT AI Labs. Known for recruiting UG QRs, and for very collegial culture.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅ Algo Dev
QT	✅
Sophomore	✅

IMC Trading

Website: IMC Trading

Locations: Chicago

Notes: Known for a pretty chill, tech-like culture. They're a more systematic OMM.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅
QT	✅
ML	✅ ML Research

Jane Street

Website: Jane Street

Locations: NYC

Notes: Founded by ex-SIG people. Tends to be more school-agnostic than other firms. General perception of JS is that it has a very comfortable and nerdy culture. Specializes in ETF market making, and uses OCaml as their primary programming language. Also has big offices in London and Hong Kong, and small offices in Singapore and Amsterdam.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅
QT	✅
Hardware	✅ FPGA

Jump Trading

Website: Jump Trading

Locations: Chicago

Notes: Fairly school-selective recruiting. Very engineering-focused with siloed teams. Known for being extremely fast at execution.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅
QT	✅
Hardware	✅ FPGA
Data	✅

Mako Trading

Website: Mako Trading

Locations: London

Notes:

Role	Links

Marshall Wace

Website: Marshall Wace

Locations: NYC

Notes:

Role	Links
SWE	✅ Tech

Maven Securities

Website: Maven Securities

Locations: London

Notes: Founded by ex-optiver traders.

Role	Links

Millenium

Website: Millenium

Locations: NYC

Notes:

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅

Old Mission

Website: Old Mission

Locations: Chicago, NYC

Notes: Takes 4 total for a winter internship. Very trader led. Many good traders come here to carve their own path.

Role	Links

Optiver

Website: Optiver

Locations: Chicago, Austin

Notes: Tends to have the highest pay out of the three big Dutch firms (IMC, Optiver, Flow Traders) due to their marble bonus system.

Role	Links
SWE	✅ Chicago    ✅ Austin
QR	✅ Chicago    ✅ Austin
QT	✅ Chicago
Hardware	✅ Chicago    ✅ Austin

PDT Partners

Website: PDT Partners

Locations: NYC

Notes: Founded by Pete Muller, very collaborative and secretive culture similar to Rentech. Recruits college students for mainly SWE but some SWE/QR combo roles (dependent on team). Exclusively recruits PhD students for full-time QR roles.

Role	Links
SWE	✅

Peak6

Website: Peak6

Locations: Chicago

Notes: The internships are geared towards women. The new grad roles are open to everyone.

Role	Links

QuantLab

Website: QuantLab

Locations: Houston

Notes:

Role	Links

Radix Trading

Website: Radix Trading

Locations: Chicago

Notes: Founded by ex-Citadel people. Radix calls SWEs Quantitative Technologists. Extremely secretive.

Role	Links
SWE	✅

Renaissance

Website: Renaissance

Locations: Setauket - East Setauket

Notes: The legendary OG quant fund. They interview some normal people for SWE, but other roles tend to be extremely difficult.

Role	Links

Schonfeld

Website: Schonfeld

Locations: Miami

Notes:

Role	Links

Seven Eight

Website: Seven Eight

Locations: NYC

Notes:

Role	Links

SIG

Website: SIG

Locations: Bala Cynwyd

Notes: Has a huge poker culture. Fairly chill culture but pay tends to be on the lower side, especially for SWEs. Considered one of the best or the best firms for traders to start their career.

Role	Links
SWE	✅ SWE    ✅ Quant Strategy Dev
QR	✅
QT	✅

Squarepoint

Website: Squarepoint

Locations: NYC

Notes:

Role	Links
QR	✅

TGS

Website: TGS

Locations: Irvine

Notes: Perception ranges anywhere from JS to RenTech tier. Extremely secretive - not much else is known.

Role	Links

Tower Research

Website: Tower Research

Locations: NYC

Notes: Super clustered into teams - traders tend to be all in one trader-researchers, while devs focus on the platform and general technology.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅
QT	✅

TransMarketGroup

Website: TransMarketGroup

Locations: Chicago, Puerto Rico

Notes: Extremely trader led. Also take interns in Puerto Rico.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QT	✅

TrexQuant Investments LP

Website: TrexQuant Investments LP

Locations: Samford

Notes: Founded by Ex-Millennium people. Only research and developers, entirely algorithmic and automatic.

Role	Links

Tudor Investment Group

Website: Tudor Investment Group

Locations: NYC, Oakland, Singapore

Notes: Focused on macro trading and discretionary strategies. Known for its founder, Paul Tudor Jones, and its emphasis on research-driven approaches. Mix of quant and discretionary trading styles. Culture can vary by team.

Role	Links

Two Sigma

Website: Two Sigma

Locations: NYC

Notes: Founded by ex-DE-Shaw people. Collaborative and chill culture. The org is mostly composed of QRs and SWEs.

Role	Links
QR	✅

Valkyrie Trading

Website: Valkyrie Trading

Locations: Chicago

Notes:

Role	Links

Vatic Labs

Website: Vatic Labs

Locations: NYC

Notes: Founded by ex-Jump people. Focus on ML.

Role	Links

Virtu Financial

Website: Virtu Financial

Locations: NYC, Austin

Notes: Known for being very HFT MM heavy.

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QT	✅

Voleon

Website: Voleon

Locations: Berkeley

Notes: Specializes in Machine Learning and recruits college students for SWE roles but primarily recruits PhD students for research roles.

Role	Links

Voloridge

Website: Voloridge

Locations: Jupiter, Florida

Notes:

Role	Links
SWE	✅
QR	✅

Wolverine

Website: Wolverine

Locations: Chicago

Notes: Generally a floor trader style firm.

Role	Links

WorldQuant

Website: WorldQuant

Locations: NYC

Notes:

Role	Links

XTX Markets

Website: XTX Markets

Locations: London

Notes: Branched out of GSA capital. Specializes in cutting edge machine learning applied to MM.

Role	Links