OpenQuant Newsletter - Edition #11
Quant Jobs & Internships, Upcoming Events, Puzzles and More!
Hello, fellow Quants!
Welcome to our weekly newsletter, where we share the latest jobs/internships, educational opportunities, and upcoming events in quantitative finance.
Here’s what we have on this week’s agenda:
Internships
Full-Time Jobs
Upcoming Events
Educational Resources
Quant Puzzle
Our Top Internships
✨ Peak6 - Data Scientist Intern | a firm that builds and invests in businesses that span from finance and insurance to esports and education.
✨ Northwestern Mutual - Investment Analyst Intern | an American financial services mutual organization.
✨ Nomura - 2024 Risk Management Summer Analyst Program | a global financial services group spanning over 30 countries.
✨ Grant Thornton - Valuation and Modeling Intern 2024 | a network of accounting firms that provide tax & advisory services.
Our Top Full-Time Positions
✨ Two Sigma - Quantitative Researcher (New Grad) | a data-driven hedge fund that uses AI and distributed computing, for its trading strategies.
✨ Trexquant - Fixed Income Quantitative Researcher | a quant firm that uses ML to create market-neutral equity portfolios and seek profit from the market.
✨ KeyBank - Quantitative Modeling and Analytics Rotational Analyst Program | one of the nation’s largest financial services companies.
✨ Millennium Management - Equity Derivatives Quant | a global investment management firm, built on a sophisticated operating system at scale.
✨ Goldman Sachs - Model Risk Analyst | a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm.
Upcoming Events
📆 5/10 - Algorithmic Trading with Python - Part 3 | a virtual talk walking through the steps of developing a trading strategy in Python.
📆 5/9 - NYU Mathematical Finance & Data Science | a virtual seminar covering the pricing kernel and its applications to option pricing.
📆 5/8 - Princeton Statistical Foundations of Data Science Conference | an academic conference covering the latest research in statistics & data science.
Educational Resources
🚀 Inferring Causality in Time Series Data | A medium article covering the causal inference methods that can be leveraged with time-series data.
🚀 OpenAI - Deep Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp Lectures | a series of lectures covering modern approaches in reinforcement learning.
🚀 Optimizing UX/UI Design for Trading at HRT | an article covering the importance of intuitive user interfaces for trading software.
Weekly Quant Puzzles
Question #1 - Probability
A person rolls four dice (6-sided) onto a table. What is the probability that the sum of the dice rolls is 7?
Question #2 - Brainteaser
Given a 4-minute and 7-minute hourglass, how would you measure exactly 9 minutes?
Quote of the Week
“Computer Programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, especially because it produces objects of beauty.” - Donald Knuth