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KeyBank

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... quantitative analytics, and asset recovery activities. About the Risk Management Internship Program The Risk Management Intern Program is designed to build KeyBank risk professionals through training ...

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What is an internship risk quant?

Internship Risk Quants are students or recent graduates who take on temporary roles within financial institutions to assist with quantitative analysis related to risk management. Their main responsibilities include analyzing financial data, developing risk models, and helping identify potential risks for the company. These internships provide hands-on experience with statistical tools, programming, and risk assessment in real-world finance environments. The goal is to prepare interns for full-time quantitative risk analyst roles after graduation.

What types of projects does an internship risk quant typically work on, and how do these projects contribute to the overall risk management strategy of the firm?

Risk Quant interns often work on projects involving data analysis, model validation, and the development of risk assessment tools under the guidance of senior quants. These projects may include tasks such as back-testing risk models, analyzing large datasets to identify potential risk exposures, and automating reporting processes. By contributing to these initiatives, interns help improve the firm's ability to measure and manage financial risks, gaining practical experience with real-world quantitative finance tools and methodologies. Collaboration with teams like trading, risk management, and IT is common, offering interns broad exposure to how quantitative analysis supports strategic decision-making in the organization.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an internship risk quant, and why are they important?

To thrive as an Internship Risk Quant, you typically need strong quantitative skills, a solid background in mathematics, statistics, or finance, and progress towards a relevant degree such as in quantitative finance or a related field. Familiarity with programming languages like Python, R, or MATLAB, as well as experience with risk management systems and financial modeling tools, is highly valued. Attention to detail, analytical thinking, and effective communication skills help interns collaborate and present complex findings clearly. These capabilities are critical for analyzing risk data accurately and supporting decision-making in dynamic finance environments.

What is the difference between Internship Risk Quant vs Risk Analyst?

AspectInternship Risk QuantRisk Analyst
Required CredentialsTypically pursuing or recent graduate, some quantitative courseworkBachelor's or master's in finance, economics, or related field; certifications like FRM or CFA often preferred
Work EnvironmentInternship setting, often in financial institutions or asset management firmsFull-time role in banks, hedge funds, or investment firms
Industry UsageCommonly used for entry-level or internship positions in risk managementEstablished role for ongoing risk assessment and management

The main difference is that an Internship Risk Quant is an entry-level, temporary position aimed at gaining experience, while a Risk Analyst is a full-time professional role responsible for ongoing risk evaluation within financial organizations.

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Quantitative Developer - C++ Infrastructure for Quant Analytics

New York, NY • On-site

Bloomberg LP
Finance and Insurance • 10K+ employees
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Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 20 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Support Quants by building, debugging, and maintaining C++ libraries and infrastructure.

  • Proactively maintain and improve integration builds, test infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Oversee library architecture, assist with API design, and review code to ensure best practices.

Bloomberg rating

9.4

Company rating: 9.4 out of 10

Based on 11 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

Job description

Quantitative Developer - C++ Infrastructure for Quant Analytics
Location
New York
Business Area
Product
Ref #
10051690
Description & Requirements
The Quant Analytics department at Bloomberg sits within Enterprise Products and is responsible for modeling market data, pricing, and risk calculations of financial derivatives across all asset classes. Our C++ libraries are used by all Bloomberg products and services, including the Terminal with over 300,000 clients, trading system solutions, enterprise risk management, and derivatives valuation services.
The department includes several Quant teams focused on different asset classes, as well as portfolio-level analytics and model validation. These teams deliver C++ libraries, supported by Python-based validation and testing, that are integrated by the Engineering department into Bloomberg's IT systems.
The Quant Library Architecture (QLA) team offers the opportunity to build experience at the cutting edge of C++ and financial mathematics, engaging with and influencing a wide variety of stakeholders of differing skill sets, to deliver scalable and strategic enterprise pricing and risk solutions. QLA is a small team of C++ experts tasked with helping the Quants be as productive as possible, for the long term. We are seeking a proficient C++ developer, with a strong interest in modern software development life-cycle practices.
We'll trust you to:
  • Support Quants; owning the developer experience for Quants. We build and debug C++ libraries either in VS Code remote containers in Docker, or directly on Unix hosts. Much of the infrastructure is provided by Engineering, but QLA maintain significant additional tooling to provide Quants the most powerful and usable development environment possible.
  • Proactively maintain integration builds and test infrastructure. We run largely automated CI/CD builds with a wide variety of static analysis and other code quality assurance tooling. This affords not just ongoing regression testing, but also early warning of issues that might impair Quants' development environment. Rapid response and ongoing improvements to these systems are a key responsibility.
  • Oversee architecture. Quants own a reasonable number of libraries interfaced into a wide variety of systems. QLA are heavily involved in API design and library architecture to meet Engineering standards whilst optimizing time to delivery, performance, and robustness. We also assess and provision 3rd party software when proven superior.
  • Review code. Assisting Quants with coding best practices and improved solutions both when requested and proactively when appropriate.
  • Once those Keep-The-Lights-On responsibilities are met, continue with project work as prioritized in partnership with Quants. This might be longer term improvements related to the above, development work on infrastructural components (such as the interfacing and orchestration library layers), performance tuning, or deeper engagement with Quant projects.
  • Proactively engage stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds.
  • Understand, document and communicate sometimes quite complex requirements.
  • Context switch between strategic projects and urgent support requests.
  • Clearly and concisely communicate a strategy, adapting communication to suit the audience and their concerns.

You'll need to have:
  • 7+ years of full software development life-cycle experience.
  • Demonstrable proficiency with C++.
  • Experience designing effective APIs.
  • Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages.
  • Knowledge of financial products such as derivatives, interest rates, or equity markets.

We'd love to see:
  • Experience mentoring and coaching other team members.
  • Technical experience in some of CMake, AAD, Linux, Unix (Sun/IBM), Docker, WSL, Python, or OCaml.
  • Knowledge of financial mathematics such as optimization techniques, monte-carlo, etc.
  • A keen interest in developing skills in these areas.

Salary Range = 160,000 - 250,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
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Bloomberg runs on data. As the Data Management & Analytics team within Engineering, we support our organization's needs around managing data efficiently. The vision of the team is to build solutions that drive data quality, data dictionary, data stewardship, data lineage, reference, and master data management across various data domains (prospect, customer, vendor, material etc.). We partner with business teams across the organization in addressing their data needs and ultimately helping run business operations efficiently and make improved decisions.

Industry

Finance and insurance

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

New York, NY, US

Year founded

1981

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