Investment Processes Intern, Summer 2027

Arrowstreet Capital • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Arrowstreet Capital is seeking an intern to join its Investment Processes group, which develops and maintains automated processes used in investment decision-making and trading. The group combines quantitative investment expertise with computer programming. Its systems process large financial data sets, combine them with risk and return forecasts, and generate the firm’s trading program; the group also develops tools to analyze and manage the resulting portfolios.

Interns work side-by-side with team members and contribute to collaborative projects. Depending on their strengths, their work may include portfolio attribution and performance analysis, research and implementation of performance attribution methods, development of production-quality applications for post-trade analytics, and measurement of different drivers of investment performance.

This is a summer 2027 internship. The listed weekly wage range is $3,500–$5,000. Placement within the range depends on relevant experience, qualifications, responsibilities, position level, and other factors. Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm managing global equity portfolios for institutional investors. The company states that qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to protected characteristics and that reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.

Requirements

• Be enrolled in a graduate program in finance, mathematics, economics, or a closely related discipline.
• Have an expected degree completion date within a year of the internship.
• Demonstrate academic success.
• Have experience with mathematical programming in Python or another scripting language.
• Have knowledge of financial markets and asset pricing, gained through industry experience or academic study.
• Understand probability, statistics, linear regression, and related mathematical concepts.
• Be able to communicate findings, results, and conclusions clearly to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain code to analyze portfolio attribution and performance.
• Research and implement innovative methods for performance attribution.
• Design and write production-quality code to build robust applications and tools that automate investment processes related to post-trade analytics.
• Collaborate on projects and initiatives to measure different drivers of performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern