2027 Internship - Technology

Qube Research & Technologies•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating across liquid asset classes and markets worldwide. Its scientific investment approach combines data, research, technology and trading expertise to develop and run systematic strategies. Technology underpins QRT’s global research and execution platform, spanning asset classes, geographies and trading horizons, from ultra-low-latency systems to large-scale research, analytics and risk infrastructure. The 10-week summer internship is for penultimate- or final-year students completing a bachelor’s or master’s degree. Interns join a team, contribute to real projects and learn alongside engineers, researchers and traders working on live problems. The environment is technical, collaborative and demanding, with opportunities to ask questions, test ideas and take ownership. Strong performance may lead to consideration for a full-time graduate role. Technology interns help build the systems, platforms and tools behind QRT’s research, trading and investment activities. Depending on their interests and strengths, interns may work in one of four disciplines: Software Engineering, developing trading and investment systems and platforms; FPGA Engineering, designing, testing and integrating ultra-low-latency hardware systems; Security Engineering, helping protect systems, data and infrastructure through security engineering, investigations and automation; or Infrastructure Engineering, working on on-premise hardware and operating systems and investigating performance, reliability and system configurations. The annualised base salary for these US positions is $178,000, prorated to reflect the internship duration. Interns also receive a signing bonus and a competitive benefits package. QRT describes its workplace as collaborative and offers initiatives and programmes intended to support work-life balance.

Requirements

Be a penultimate- or final-year student pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a STEM discipline, such as Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related Engineering or Security subject.
Be on track for a 2:1 or above from a leading institution.
Have an interest in technology and enjoy solving technical problems and understanding how systems work.
Have hands-on software engineering experience, which may come from personal projects, open-source contributions, hobbies, internships or academic work.
Have an interest in Software Engineering, Security, Infrastructure or FPGAs.
Demonstrate proficiency in C++, C# or Python, and SystemVerilog.
Be familiar with scripting languages such as Python or Bash and tools or technologies including Git, SQL, GCC and Linux.
Be curious, proactive and comfortable asking questions.
Be self-motivated, thoughtful and comfortable taking ownership of a problem.

Responsibilities

Contribute to real technology projects as part of a team, working on live problems alongside experienced colleagues.
Help build systems, platforms and tools supporting QRT’s research, trading and investment activities.
Depending on discipline, develop or improve trading systems, analytics and risk platforms, FPGA systems, security tools, or infrastructure performance and reliability.
For Software Engineering projects, make considered engineering choices and build useful solutions to defined technical problems.
For FPGA Engineering projects, help design, test and integrate FPGA systems using relevant hardware and software tools; develop functionality, verify system behaviour and investigate performance improvements.
For Security Engineering projects, contribute to security engineering, investigations and automation, potentially building investigation agents, reproducing attacks in isolated environments, researching vulnerabilities or developing security assurance tools.
For Infrastructure Engineering projects, investigate performance constraints, test system configurations and assess improvements to production-system reliability.
Ask questions, test ideas, take ownership and develop skills throughout the programme.