Internship
The Role
We are excited to offer an opportunity for exceptional individuals to join the internship program at Schonfeld. You’ll spend ten weeks with an experienced technology team within the DMFI division where you will be immersed in the culture and atmosphere of Schonfeld, working alongside talented professionals on high profile projects.
What you’ll do
Collaborate with senior DMFI Technology developers to build high-performance software integrating with our analytics library. You will power live and historical market-data pipelines that directly enable Portfolio Managers to make critical, time-sensitive investment decisions.
Key responsibilities include
- Streaming Live Data: Process ticking market data from multiple providers, delivering it to users within milliseconds.
- Optimizing Time-Series: Build highly efficient historical datasets optimized for rapid trading analysis.
- Data Lifecycle Management: Enhance every stage of our data pipeline: ingest ➜ clean ➜ store ➜ analyze ➜ deliver.
- Risk & P&L Visibility: Contribute to pipelines that give PMs real-time and historical visibility into their market exposures.
- Production Ownership: Own a summer-long analytics project from conception to production deployment for active business use.
What we look for
- Academic Background: Currently pursuing a degree in a technical or quantitative discipline.
- Core Languages: Strong proficiency in Python; familiarity with Java is a plus.
- Database Knowledge: Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
- Technical Edge: Exp