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Quantitative Trading – Intern (Asia)

Citadel Securities
🇭🇰Hong KongStudentInternPosted September 22, 2026

About the Role

As a Quantitative Trading Intern at Citadel Securities, you will work alongside markets and trading experts who use predictive analytics and advanced technology to monitor risk, respond to market signals, execute trading strategies, and provide liquidity to the world's most important financial institutions such as central banks, pension funds and asset managers.

This is an 11-week program that allows you to collaborate and connect with senior team members, and to network and socialize with peers throughout the internship.

  • Develop in-depth knowledge of a financial market
  • Apply advanced statistical techniques to trading
  • Constantly learn and adapt trading approaches
  • Innovate by using one of the industry's most powerful trading platforms

Responsibilities

  • Develop in-depth knowledge of a financial market
  • Apply advanced statistical techniques to trading
  • Constantly learn and adapt trading approaches
  • Innovate by using one of the industry's most powerful trading platforms

Requirements

  • Pursuing a bachelor's or master's in applied math, engineering, statistical modeling, calculus, computer science, physics or related disciplines
  • Ability to think about the world systematically and quantitatively
  • Ability to deal with uncertainty in a rigorous and statistical approach
  • Interest in applying technology and/or quantitative skills to solve complex trading problems
  • Passion for the markets and a desire to seize investment opportunities
  • Experience with programming, scripting, and/or statistical software strongly preferred