376 live internship ads across 43 firms. "Names 2027" counts ads with 2027 in the title; share is internships as a percentage of all the firm's live ads.
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Susquehanna (SIG) | 48 | 37 |
| 2 | Jane Street | 35 | 0 |
| 3 | Jump Trading | 30 | 0 |
| 4 | Citadel Securities | 27 | 0 |
| 5 | Optiver | 25 | 21 |
| 6 | Citadel | 20 | 1 |
| 7 | IMC | 18 | 10 |
| 8 | Virtu | 17 | 14 |
| 9 | Balyasny Asset Management | 16 | 0 |
| 10 | Point72 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | D. E. Shaw | 11 | 9 |
| 12 | Akuna Capital | 9 | 9 |
| 13 | Tower Research | 9 | 2 |
| 14 | AQR Capital | 8 | 8 |
| 15 | Quantbot | 8 | 8 |
| 16 | PIMCO | 7 | 7 |
| 17 | DV Trading | 6 | 6 |
| 18 | Qube RT (QRT) | 6 | 0 |
| 19 | WorldQuant | 6 | 0 |
| 20 | CFM | 5 | 0 |
| 21 | Five Rings Capital | 4 | 4 |
| 22 | G-Research | 4 | 0 |
| 23 | Squarepoint Capital | 4 | 3 |
| 24 | TransMarket Group | 4 | 0 |
| 25 | Belvedere Trading | 3 | 3 |
| 26 | Garda Capital Partners | 3 | 0 |
| 27 | Hudson River Trading | 3 | 3 |
| 28 | Schonfeld | 3 | 0 |
| 29 | Flow Traders | 2 | 1 |
| 30 | GSA Capital | 2 | 0 |
| 31 | Maven Securities | 2 | 2 |
| 32 | PDT Partners | 2 | 2 |
| 33 | Stevens Capital Management | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | Two Sigma | 2 | 2 |
| 35 | Verition | 2 | 2 |
| 36 | Bridgewater | 1 | 1 |
| 37 | Brookfield Asset Management | 1 | 0 |
| 38 | Engineers Gate | 1 | 0 |
| 39 | Group One | 1 | 0 |
| 40 | Old Mission Capital | 1 | 1 |
| 41 | Trexquant | 1 | 0 |
| 42 | Wellington | 1 | 0 |
| 43 | XTX Markets | 1 | 0 |
Source: kadoa.com/quant/internships · live careers-page ads, updated daily
Skill areas: a named skill or a named tool counts an ad into an area, once. General-purpose languages (Python, C++, Linux, Excel) belong to no area; their raw counts are in the technology table below.
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Statistics & time series | 134 | 36% |
| 2 | Machine learning & AI | 126 | 34% |
| 3 | Alpha research & backtesting | 88 | 23% |
| 4 | Data engineering | 59 | 16% |
| 5 | Natural language processing | 44 | 12% |
| 6 | Risk & portfolio construction | 41 | 11% |
| 7 | Derivatives & pricing | 33 | 9% |
| 8 | Market microstructure & execution | 28 | 7% |
| 9 | Low-latency & hardware | 18 | 5% |
| 10 | Cloud & DevOps | 9 | 2% |
Programming languages and tools; each internship ad is counted once per item.
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 251 | 67% |
| 2 | C++ | 139 | 37% |
| 3 | Linux | 49 | 13% |
| 4 | Java | 44 | 12% |
| 5 | C | 43 | 11% |
| 6 | R | 41 | 11% |
| 7 | SQL | 32 | 9% |
| 8 | C# | 27 | 7% |
| 9 | Excel | 20 | 5% |
| 10 | FPGA | 18 | 5% |
| 11 | PyTorch | 17 | 5% |
| 12 | Pandas | 16 | 4% |
| 13 | MATLAB | 15 | 4% |
| 14 | TensorFlow | 13 | 3% |
| 15 | Bash | 12 | 3% |
| 16 | OCaml | 12 | 3% |
| 17 | Claude | 11 | 3% |
| 18 | Verilog/VHDL | 11 | 3% |
| 19 | Git | 10 | 3% |
| 20 | JavaScript | 10 | 3% |
| 21 | NumPy | 10 | 3% |
| 22 | TypeScript | 10 | 3% |
| 23 | Rust | 9 | 2% |
| 24 | SystemVerilog | 9 | 2% |
| 25 | JAX | 7 | 2% |
Cities named in internship ads; an ad listing several cities counts once per city.
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | 99 | 26% |
| 2 | London | 70 | 19% |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 51 | 14% |
| 4 | Chicago | 45 | 12% |
| 5 | Singapore | 34 | 9% |
| 6 | Amsterdam | 18 | 5% |
| 7 | Greenwich | 18 | 5% |
| 8 | Philadelphia area | 16 | 4% |
| 9 | Paris | 12 | 3% |
| 10 | Dublin | 11 | 3% |
| 11 | Miami | 10 | 3% |
| 12 | Austin | 9 | 2% |
| 13 | Shanghai | 9 | 2% |
| 14 | Sydney | 9 | 2% |
| 15 | Houston | 7 | 2% |
Highest annualized base rate printed in an internship ad, USD. Annualized rate, not summer take-home pay.
| # | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five Rings Capital | $300,000 |
| 2 | IMC | $300,000 |
| 3 | Jump Trading | $300,000 |
| 4 | Point72 | $270,000 |
| 5 | Citadel Securities | $267,800 |
| 6 | Jane Street | $225,000 |
| 7 | Quantbot | $190,000 |
| 8 | Verition | $175,000 |
| 9 | Engineers Gate | $156,000 |
| 10 | Squarepoint Capital | $150,000 |
| 11 | Maven Securities | $115,000 |
| 12 | Garda Capital Partners | $104,000 |
| 13 | PIMCO | $89,981 |
13 of 43 firms print a figure; the rest are omitted, not zero.