# Quantitative Master's Internship Programme

**Company**: BlackRock
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

Our Quantitative Master's Internship Programme is an immersive eight-week experience in the UK that offers a clear window into life as a BlackRock Associate.

Designed for specialised master's students in quantitative fields, the programme gives you hands-on exposure to our work, our people and the impact you can make.

We are looking for the next generation of quantitative investors. We offer a range of opportunities, spanning quantitative research, portfolio management, product strategy and investment technology.

BlackRock Systematic is one of the largest quantitative investment managers in the world, with over $200bn in assets under management and 35+ years of systematic investing experience.

### Teams you may be considered for:

- **Factors, Sustainability and Solutions (FS2)**: FS2 combines the research and investment expertise across the BlackRock Systematic Investment platform to drive product innovation, product research and client engagement.

- **Systematic Active Equity**: A pioneering quantitative investment team comprised of industry leaders that applies powerful machine learning techniques to active equity investment strategies.

- **Systematic Fixed Income**: A global, multi-asset investment team that combines financial theory, econometrics, market sentiment and groundbreaking statistical techniques to generate alpha across sovereign, corporate and securitized debt instruments.

### What capabilities are we looking for?

- Passion for quantitative investing

- Strong technical problem-solving skills

- Ability to write efficient, effective computer code (Python)

- Experience with translating statistical models and algorithms into code

- Comfort in working with large datasets

- Inquisitive nature, desire to learn and critical thinking

- Effective communication and collaboration skills

- Curiosity, critical thinking, learning agility, and sound judgement in technology-enabled decision making, coupled with an enthusiasm for AI, emerging technologies, and continuous innovation

### Your learning and development will include:

- Contributing to the function's knowledge base by working on investment or client-related projects

- Joining daily market-related updates, learning about how our portfolios trade and react to market events

- Collaborating across multiple business functions to learn the research and product life cycles and our strategies for continued growth

- Developing an understanding of capital markets, return drivers and economic theory

- Learning about our clients and their investment strategies; assisting in guiding investors toward achieving their unique investment goals by applying our technology and tools

- Being part of an innovative, dynamic, diverse team culture and learning from some of the best minds in the business

### Our benefits

- Retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future

- Access to education reimbursement

- Comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being

- Family support programs

- Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about

### Our hybrid work model

- BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all.

- Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- quantitative investing
- machine learning
- artificial intelligence
- data analysis
- problem-solving
- communication
- collaboration

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