Summer 2027 Trading Internship – Abu Dhabi

About the role

Join Brevan Howard’s 2027 Summer Internship Program in Abu Dhabi and work directly with front‑office teams on real‑world quantitative and machine‑learning projects. You will help transform large data sets into actionable trading insights while gaining exposure to systematic and discretionary investment processes.

Key responsibilities

• Build pipelines to extract, clean and analyse market, macroeconomic and alternative data.
• Develop quantitative models, trading signals and AI‑powered tools using the latest LLMs and agent workflows.
• Support Portfolio Managers in decision‑making by delivering analytical outputs and research.
• Contribute to the firm’s core analytics library used across research, trading and risk management.
• Participate in a one‑week intensive training covering macroeconomics, FX, digital assets, derivatives, risk management, Excel, Python and AI tools.

Required profile

• Penultimate‑year undergraduate, junior, or 1st‑year master’s/PhD student graduating before July 2028.
• Strong mathematical and quantitative problem‑solving abilities.
• Passion for financial markets, trading and financial products.

Required skills

• Excel
• VBA
• R
• Python
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Machine Learning (ML)
• Large Language Models (LLMs)

What we offer

• Mentorship from senior quants and portfolio managers.
• Key talks, social events and networking with industry experts.
• Potential conversion to the 2028 Graduate Program for top‑performing interns.
• Comprehensive exposure to a multi‑strategy hedge‑fund environment.