Quantitative Investment Internship Program - Summer 2027

What You’ll Do

• Our investment process depends on three connected components: research into what predicts returns and risk, an implementation process that carries those findings through to real portfolios, and the technology that supports both. Intern projects can come from any part of that work, and most interns focus on one or two areas over the summer. Recent projects have involved:
• Finding and testing what predicts returns and risk. Developing systematic signals, working with new datasets, and testing whether published findings hold in our own setting.
• Understanding how our risk models behave. Examining the structure and assumptions inside the models we use to measure and forecast risk.
• Turning investment models into live portfolios. Portfolio construction, trading and costs, and the differences that emerge when one strategy is run across many client accounts.
• Building the tools investment teams use. Internal tools and data pipelines, including tools that draw on both firm data and generative AI.
• Modernizing the systems the investment process runs on. Rewriting production code and making research and model updates faster and more repeatable.
• We're Looking for Teammates With:
• Currently enrolled in a Master’s or PhD program in a quantitative discipline (including, but not limited to, statistics, mathematics, economics, financial engineering, computer science, physics, and operations research) with an expected degree completion between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Ability to write the code needed to complete your own work. We work primarily in Python.
• Interest in applying quantitative methods to financial markets.
• Experience carrying an empirical or computational project from an open question through to a finished result, using real data and your own code. Examples might include a thesis or dissertation involving original analysis, a working or published paper, a research assistantship in which you owned a workstream, or a professional project in which you built a tool or model others used.
• Availability for the full 10-week program, which is based in Boston. Interns are expected to work from our Boston office at least four days per week.
• The hourly wage for this position is $50.00 per hour for Master’s candidates and $65.00 per hour for PhD candidates. Interns relocating to Boston are eligible for a relocation stipend of $1,000. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
• To apply for this position or view Acadian’s open roles, please visit the Careers section of our website at: https://www.acadian-asset.com/careers/open-positions. We will contact only selected candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected].
• Acadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. No employee or applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood, veteran status, citizenship status, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.