2026 Engineering Summer Analyst

The Internship Program

Our 10-week summer program puts real work of the firm in your hands. You will work alongside brilliant people, gain insights and know-how from our Quanta Academy Summer Term curriculum, and experience what it’s like to work at the pinnacle of global, systematic investing.

Learning is the cornerstone of our culture and plays an active role in the internship experience — through daily collaboration and interaction with employees at all levels, in workshops and classes, and most significantly by working on projects that matter to the many clients we serve. Our unique AQR Quanta Academy: Summer Term learning series, a structured program, consists of over 40 hours of educational, skill-building and networking events.

Your Role

Are you an intelligent and creative thinker? Do you enjoy finding elegant technical solutions to complex problems? Are you interested in seeing an impact of your work in real life? We are looking for innovative and passionate undergraduates to join our engineering teams as summer analysts. Candidates may be interviewed for one of several teams, including:

1. Client Facing Tech Team

You will design and implement projects to support critical business functions for Client Admin and Business Development teams. You will be expected to research, design, code, test and deploy projects while working in a fast-paced environment. You will work side-by-side with the development team to implement new ideas through creative use of technology.

Focus Areas

• User Interface design and implementation using AQR proprietary UI platform.
• Design and implementation of Web APIs
• Data visualization

Technologies

• C#, .NET Core
• HTML, Angular
• Tableau, data visualization libraries
• Git (GitHub Enterprise), Continuous Integration and Automated Deployments

1. Enterprise Engineering

The Enterprise Engineering team is responsible for design and development of foundational software infrastructure utilized by applications throughout AQR. The team works on multiple different systems, some of which includes:

• Firmwide Data Platform
• Data services for multiple business areas
• PNL, valuations and securities systems
• External Market Data
• Internal Reference Data

The team is also responsible for building and maintaining common development tools and libraries that are implemented in Java, C#, Python and Go. The team also collaborates with other teams to help them re-architect their applications and modernize their tech stack. We work on multiple interesting technologies and are quick in adopting latest technologies when it fits our use case. Most of our infrastructure, services and applications are running on AWS cloud leveraging multiple new-gen services. We also focus on non-functional aspects to ensure our services are highly robust, performant, and scalable.

Technologies

• Java or Python
• Angular
• Amazon Web Services
• GIT
• Jenkins

1. Middle Office Team

You will design and implement AQR’s proprietary systems throughout all areas of the firm. You will be expected to research, design, code, test and deploy projects while working in a fast-paced environment. Our software developers work side-by-side with investment management professionals to implement new ideas through creative use of technology.

Focus Areas

• Modeling complex data structures, patterns and relationships
• Data analysis (NoSQL technologies)
• User interaction design and data visualization
• Cloud architecture
• Messaging infrastructure
• Open-source software (pandas was born at AQR!)

Technologies

• Python (NumPy, SciPy, pandas)
• Java
• HTML5, WebGL, Tableau, data visualization libraries
• Git (GitHub Enterprise), Continuous Integration and Automated Deployments
• Redis, RabbitMQ, Redshift, Postgres

Who You Are

• Finishing either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program between December 2026 and June 2027
• Mature and thoughtful, with the ability to operate within a collaborative, team-oriented culture
• Hard working and eager to learn in a highly intellectual, innovative environment
• Look beyond the surface level to understand the underlying details

AQR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EEO/VET/DISABILITY