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Campus Quantitative Researcher, PhD (Intern)

Chicago💼 Internship💰 $300,000–$300,000🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

10-week intensive PhD research internship focusing on predictive modeling, alpha research, and improving live trading systems using real market data.

Role type

PhD Quantitative Research Intern

Builds

Predictive trading models and systems for live markets

Domain

Quantitative finance / High-frequency trading

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Systematic research thinking, Ownership of research, Experience with real-world data analysis, Python programming, Hypothesis formulation and statistical testing

Preferred skills

C++ proficiency, Financial markets familiarity

Technologies

Python, Supercomputing grid

Responsibilities

Match with a trading team and own a research project end-to-end, Collect and clean large datasets to engineer predictive features, Build, fit, and evaluate models on a supercomputing grid, Present research results to the team and mentors

Seniority

Intern, PhD student

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