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Performance Engineer Intern - Summer 2027

Chicago💼 Internship💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Intern role applying quantitative techniques and practical experimentation to optimize exchange technology, liquidity strategies, and ultra-low-latency trading systems.

Role type

Intern, quantitative performance engineer

Builds

AI agents, ETL pipelines, and algorithms for ultra-low-latency trading strategies

Domain

Financial markets, electronic trading, network systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, quantitative research, statistical modeling, network technology, reverse-engineering, stress-testing

Preferred skills

machine learning, network technology

Responsibilities

Perform quantitative research with large datasets to understand exchange technology; Design novel strategies to optimize liquidity taking and quoting strategies; Develop AI agents, ETL pipelines and algorithms to optimize ultra-low-latency trading strategies; Reverse-engineer and stress-test network and systems programming technologies; Collaborate with Traders and Hardware and Software Engineers

Seniority

Intern

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