2027 DMFI Intern

About the Role

• Join Schonfeld's DMFI (Discretionary Macro and Fixed Income) business in the New York office.
• Be part of a small, high-impact team within DMFI Strategies focused on data-driven analysis across fixed income and macro markets.
• Combine deep market intuition with rigorous quantitative methods to identify relative value opportunities in rates and broader fixed income.
• Work directly alongside the Portfolio Manager, gaining significant exposure to live trading, macro analysis, and the end-to-end investment process.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain fixed income analytics, valuation tools, and relative value frameworks for idea generation and portfolio monitoring.
• Develop research pipelines and production-quality tooling for data ingestion, analytics, backtesting, and risk analysis.
• Analyze relative value opportunities across rates and fixed income markets using quantitative and statistical techniques.
• Collaborate with the PM to formalize trading intuition into quantitative models and repeatable research processes.
• Improve the robustness, scalability, and maintainability of the team's codebase and analytical stack.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Python programming skills with significant experience on data-driven projects (data manipulation, visualization, statistical modeling).
• Solid grounding in quantitative analysis techniques: comfortable with statistics, linear algebra, and numerical methods.
• A software engineering mindset: care about code quality, testing, and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a highly quantitative disciplined degree.
• Genuine enthusiasm for financial markets, particularly fixed income and macro.
• Excellent attention to detail, intellectual curiosity, and strong communication skills.