Walleye Capital is seeking highly quantitative and analytical interns to join their Central Risk Book (CRB) team for Summer 2026 to develop and optimize models that reduce trading costs and decipher short-term alphas, contributing to the firm's quantitative investment strategies.
Requirements
- Demonstrate strong quantitative and analytical skills (including programming proficiency in R and/or Python).
Responsibilities
- Conduct quantitative research to evaluate model performance and identify opportunities for improvement using large-scale datasets.
- Build predictive and explanatory models to identify patterns in asset returns, risks, trading costs and price impact, or other aspects relevant to managing our portfolios.
- Collaborate across groups to integrate your work into production systems that support trading decisions.
- Help build and enhance our infrastructure and tools for trading, risk management and attribution.
Other
- Are pursuing an undergraduate or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, statistics, mathematics, or a related field, with an expected graduation date between December 2026 and June 2027.
- Are self-starters who enjoy digging into complex, open-ended problems and can work both independently and collaboratively with a team.
- Exhibit a genuine interest in financial markets, execution trading, systematic investing, and using technology in dynamic, data-rich environments.
- Thrive in a collaborative culture that values intellectual humility, creativity, and continuous learning.
- The internship is 10 weeks in length and will take place in New York City from June to August 2026.
- Walleye is an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by applicable law.
- If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in any part of our hiring process, please contact [mdavis@walleyecapital.com].
- Personal data you provide will be processed in accordance with Walleye Capital LLC’s Privacy Notice available at: https://www.walleyecapital.com/.
