Quantitative Research Summer Intern
At Parametric, we offer competitive salaries, generous benefits and opportunities for growth and development. We invite you to explore our available job opportunities listed below and look forward to having you become a part of our continued success!
General Description
The co-op/intern is a member of the Fixed Income Quantitative Strategies Group and will help with the department’s research, portfolio construction and trading capabilities.
Primary Responsibilities
- Use cutting-edge software and AWS cloud services to aid in innovative research studies, such as applying natural language processing to generate investment ideas.
- Support the team’s quantitative investment process by collecting, cleaning, processing and analyzing large datasets.
- Work with internal trading desk to help with workflow automation, data processing and general support for the ESG portfolio management team.
- Help guide portfolio decisions by analyzing portfolio risk exposures, assessing drivers of portfolio performance and researching market conditions.
- Drive a long-term research project with supervision and support from the team’s portfolio managers and quantitative analysts.
- Other responsibilities as assigned.
Job Requirements
- Progress toward an undergraduate degree in Business, Computer Science, Data Science or a STEM program.
- Demonstrated interest in investments and quantitative investment research.
- Strong analytic background, with applicable experience using large datasets.
- Knowledge of fixed income markets plus.
- Python, R, C# or other object oriented programing a plus.
- SQL Server, MySql or other database experience a plus.
- NLP, Machine Learning or AI knowledge a plus.