Intern - Portfolio Engineering, Capital Markets, CMIA (September 2026 - 8 months)

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan • Toronto, ON

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

We are Capital Markets Investment Analytics (CMIA), an innovation-driven and centralized technology team within Capital Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. We manage a broad and diversified set of portfolios and systematic applications. Development and maintenance of these applications require a unique combination of strong software skills and investment knowledge. We are looking for an intern to join our team this winter for an 8-month term. We are a team of software engineers that work closely with portfolio managers to help implement and support various portfolios and applications. Our applications consist of back-testing, execution, and attribution. CMIA is a team of 4, based in Toronto. You will work alongside investment professionals in a world-class portfolio engineering team with a focus on investment-related software applications. We work very closely in an open and collaborative environment. We are entrepreneurial, tight knit, and have a performance driven culture. You will be mentored and guided by senior members of the CMIA team.

Requirements

• To be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in quantitative discipline such as Engineering or Computer Science.
• Solid understanding of software engineering concepts and techniques, including design patterns, object-oriented programming, database, and version control systems.
• Strong interest in financial markets.
• Strong motivation to learn about systematic investment strategies and automated trading systems.
• Strong programming skills in a variety of modern programming languages, with a preference for Python, MATLAB, and JavaScript.
• Highly creative, entrepreneurial, and resourceful.
• You should be returning back to your studies after the work term is completed
• Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the country where this role is located.

Responsibilities

• Improve and work on our internal proprietary investment strategy codebase under the guidance of senior colleagues in CMIA.
• The code you will work on directly supports investment functions including but not limited to: proprietary investment strategies, automated algorithmic trading, portfolio management, order management, risk analysis, automated reporting, profit and loss analysis, performance attribution, portfolio analytics, quantitative strategies research & implementation, regression tests, investment reporting.
• Proactively look for areas of improvement and bring new ideas to the team through analysis and research.
• Investigate and attribute portfolio profit and loss to various strategies and factors.
• Work on a variety of datasets (e.g., sourcing, cleaning, visualization).
• Gain experience in one or several asset classes, including equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities.
• Contribute to the development and optimization of our portfolio implementation infrastructure and analytical tools.

Benefits

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development, including lunch and learns
• Student led team building events on a monthly basis
• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis
• Diversity is one of our core strengths.
• We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience.
• Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring.
• We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Associate degree