Students and graduates

Our summer internships and year-long placement opportunities challenge curious minds through hands-on experience with real projects, access to leading training programmes and world-class mentor support.

01 Quantitative research

Our annual 10-week Summer Research Programme gives our interns the opportunity to work on a meaningful project.

You’ll sit within a collaborative environment and employ rigorous scientific methodology to extract deep insights from an extensive data ecosystem, all under the stewardship of some of the world’s best research and ML talent.

02 Engineering and technology

Over the course of 12 or 24 weeks, our engineering interns gain real-world exposure to life at a tech-driven business.

Embedded in our Quantitative or Infrastructure Engineering teams, you’ll work on projects that enhance the world-class trading technology platforms we develop, evolve legacy systems and contribute to vital OpenStack work.

03 Corporate

Our long-term success is driven by support and collaboration across our teams – our corporate functions embody that.

We offer a range of placement opportunities within finance, legal, business analytics and human resources. Working closely with experienced colleagues, you will help us overcome the unique challenges experienced by a leading firm in a highly competitive industry.

What our people say

Owen Software Engineer

"Before G-Research I’d completed internships at a few companies whilst studying Computer Science at the University of York. Since joining, I’ve progressed from an intern to a graduate to an engineer, having worked on systems and technology core to the business my entire time."

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Leon Quantitative Research Manager

"There was a lot I didn't know about G-Research, so I gained insights from those who interviewed me. They all came across as intelligent, curious and interested in exploring problems from different angles. I figured if people like this enjoy their jobs then I most certainly will."

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Mia Software Engineer

"What I appreciate most about working in G-Research is the supportive and knowledgeable environment. Everyone is incredibly helpful and patient, which ensures there’s a good balance between being challenged and your workload."

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Simon Cyber Security Manager

"There are lots of people within the business that have started as a junior and progressed – which I think is testament to G-Research's belief in fostering growth and recognising potential."

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Meet our interns

I amsa. My name's Matthew. My name is Kasha. My name's Sophie. My name's Ben. All of the interns are supervised by a mentor who's a full-time quant researcher. On the day to day, we're doing a lot of coding, we're reading a lot of papers, we're trying to come up with some new maths, trying to bring it all together to solve an interesting problem. I'm intern in data science. Uh, the project I've been working on focus both on data analysis and inventing some strategies for trying to merge multiple time series into one. So my main focus, this internship, has been on developing visualization tools for various types of, uh, data sets that we currently process within the Team. My internship was in security operations. So my role day-to-day was to provide support for different security functions across the company. Originally I was working in the infrastructure function. I was in the compute infrastructure engineering team, managing, monitoring, and maintaining the hardware infrastructure at G Research. So the most attractive thing to me was the culture. Everyone who I knew who worked here had said that it was, you know, a group of incredibly smart people doing super smart things in a very supportive environment. It feels like a fusion between academia and tech industry. Uh, and I absolutely love it. But definitely the um, pace is much faster. You are placed within a team. Uh, at G-Research. You have people to constantly bounce your ideas off and iterate on your work. Ultimately, you get a lot of other people's input and knowledge. It gives you that sort of introduction to industry before actually graduating. I've never had to worry about asking silly questions or feeling judged. Anyone that I've reached out for help with has just been excellent. At university, it's very guided, whereas at G-Research you've got the opportunity to expand what you know and also sort of really follow what you are doing at university on with a real world application. There's a big focus on also helping you develop how you want to developing your interests. I wanted some experience in the sort of software world, um, and doing research gave me the opportunity to sort of see where I wanted to go. I've been exposed to a huge number of really talented people, um, whether that be fellow interns or colleagues who already work at your research. Uh, we have team socials and these are really nice opportunities to meet other people on the internship, but also to meet other people you might deal with day to day. I got offered a graduate role at the end of my internship. That was a really nice thing to know that I had whilst working through my final year of university.

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Internship assessment processes

Interested in joining one of our internships or placement year programmes? Learn more about the application process.

Quantitative research internships

There are four stages in our quantitative research internship assessment process, which typically takes one to two weeks to complete.

The general process is:

Apply online
Online quantitative aptitude test
Technical interviews
Final interview with a functional lead

Engineering internships

There are three stages in our engineering internship interview process, which typically takes one to two weeks to complete.

The general process is:

Apply online
Online skills test
Assessment centre

Corporate internships

There are three stages in our corporate internship process, which typically takes one to two weeks to complete.

The general process is:

Apply online
Interviews; usually one or two, depending on the role you’re applying for
Final interview with a functional leader

Interested in a graduate opportunity at G-Research?

We typically launch our graduate positions in August. You can view all of our current roles, including internships and placement years, via the link below.

View our current roles