Quantitative Trader

Summer Internship 2027

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation  for discovering unique market opportunities.

Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization. 

Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance.

At Tower, every employee plays a role in our success. Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do — combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.

At Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential.

Our trading teams are hiring for aspiring quantitative traders/researchers for internships in summer 2027 - only open to penultimate year students.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and deploying high or mid-frequency trading algorithms
• Working with a dedicated mentor to research and enhance existing trading strategies
• Exploring trading ideas by analyzing market data.
• Creating tools to analyze data for patterns
• Contributing to libraries of analytical computations to support market data analysis and trading

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's, Master's and/or PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics, electrical engineering, computer science, data science, financial engineering, or related fields
• A strong background in Python, C++
• Strong problem-solving abilities
• A passion for new technologies and ideas
• The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills

Benefits

Tower’s headquarters are in the historic Equitable Building, right in the heart of NYC’s Financial District and our impact is global, with over a dozen offices around the world.