Quantitative Researcher Intern
We offer internship opportunities year-round, including summer and winter internships as well as part-time roles during the academic year.
Founded in 2018, AXQ Capital is a global quantitative investment firm with offices in New York, Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. A strategic partnership with Schonfeld has served as a cornerstone of our business. We pursue consistent alpha through rigorous scientific research and sustained investment in technology and data infrastructure. Our strategies are deployed across global markets, spanning multiple geographies, asset classes, and trading horizons.
We bring together exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds. Our team includes graduates of leading institutions such as Baruch MFE, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Peking University, and Tsinghua University. Many have built their careers at the world’s most respected quant firms, including Citadel, Two Sigma, Jump Trading, Tower Research, and Schonfeld. At AXQ, we believe that great ideas emerge where curiosity, rigor, and collaboration meet. We provide the environment and resources for talented individuals to realize their potential and emerge as world-class experts in their fields. The market keeps the score, and our culture is built to outperform.
Our founders have applied machine learning to financial markets since 2016, and it remains central to our team's work across all departments. Our quantitative research spans a rich variety of models, from classical techniques executed at scale to cutting-edge work in deep learning and generative AI. Our researchers and engineers draw on first principles alongside empirical results, working side by side to take ideas from concept to production while incorporating the latest advances in AI research.
Across our global team, we foster a collaborative environment grounded in curiosity, diverse perspectives, hard work, and a shared pursuit of excellence. We empower everyone to act like an owner while communicating openly and directly so the best ideas win — and we celebrate the wins together.
We invest in our people for the long term. Here, team members take on distinctive challenges, work hard at problems that matter, keep learning, and build careers shaped by meaningful achievement, lasting friendships, and new life experiences.
We offer internship opportunities year-round, including summer and winter internships as well as part-time roles during the academic year.
You will leverage our top-notch research and trading infrastructure and gain exposure to the full investment process, including alpha research, portfolio construction and trade execution.
You will build and lead your team to develop and manage systematic strategies across geographies, asset classes, and trading horizons with end-to-end ownership of the investment process.
You will build the next generation of agentic AI quant research infrastructure and push the frontiers of modern AI - with the rare advantage of real financial market feedback as your ground truth.