We are looking for Quantitative Developer Interns to join our summer internship Akunacademy and work with a small team of quants and traders in our Cambridge office. Our projects encompass data collection, analysis, back-testing, and live trading. A successful candidate will be a talented programmer with quantitative skills who enjoys finding elegant solutions to complex problems.

 In the past, Quantitative Development Interns have:

• Back-tested in-house trading strategies
• Developed tools for monitoring our trading system
• Researched improvements to our models
• Optimized code for performance
• Contributed features to core production systems

What would make you a top-notch candidate?

• Currently pursuing a BS/MS/PhD in a technical field - Physics, Math, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Comfortable working with the Python data analysis stack (numpy, pandas, bokeh, etc.) in a POSIX environment
• An ability to work independently and communicate complex technical ideas
• An interest in machine learning, option theory and statistical arbitrage

** Candidates must be located near Cambridge, MA.