AQR Capital Management

AQR is a global investment firm built at the intersection of financial theory and practical application. We strive to deliver concrete, long-term results by looking past market noise to identify and isolate the factors that matter most, and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing. By putting theory into practice, we have become a leader in alternative strategies and an innovator in traditional portfolio management since 1998.

At AQR, our employees share a common spirit of academic excellence, intellectual honesty and an unwavering commitment to seeking the truth. We’re determined to know what makes financial markets tick – and we’ll ask every question and challenge every assumption.  We recognize and respect the power of collaboration and believe transparency and openness to new ideas leads to innovation.

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.

Team: 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.

As part of your job, you will collaborate with many AQR teams including Business Development, Operations, Portfolio Implementation, Research, and others. You will learn firsthand about platforms and processes that run AQR, one of the largest quantitative investment firms in the world. 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.

Technologies

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

Who You Are  

• December 2025 or Spring 2026 graduate in a Computer Science related program
• Committed to intellectual integrity, with a high degree of ethics
• 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
• Well–organized, detail–oriented; able to multi–task and keep track of various deadlines
• Look beyond the surface level to understand the underlying details

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