The D. E. Shaw group is a home for curious minds. We have high ethical standards and enjoy solving difficult problems. Joining our team means you’ll work with a creative, socially conscious, and (occasionally) nerdy set of individuals. We thrive on diversity—in life experiences, fields of study, and ways of thinking (to name just a few). Click here to apply. We welcome exceptional applicants from all backgrounds.
Career Development
To ensure that our curious staff never stop learning, we offer onsite and online courses to aid in professional development, we utilize a supportive mentorship system, and we bring in leading thinkers from academia and industry to discuss everything from space exploration to the physics of cooking. We also curate a Technical Speaker series dedicated to computing, economics, machine learning, and statistics. Our goal is to give all of our staff the opportunity to grow through challenging work, friendly colleagues, and a culture of continuous learning.
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Interviewing
Interviewing is important to our hiring process. As we get to know you better, you’ll get the chance to know our firm better, too.
Compelling candidates tend to:
Uphold high standards
Analyze rigorously
Communicate clearly and concisely
Thrive on collaboration
Demonstrate intellectual curiosity
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Interviewing with Us:
If you want to learn more about our approach to interviewing, our guide to preparing for an interview can help you put your best foot forward.
A successful hiring process often includes an application review, a phone interview and virtualinterviews,conversations with your references, and, finally, an offer.We may also ask you to provide a writing sample or code sample, and to complete a case study. Depending on the role, your process may differ slightly.
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The specifics of your interviews—the number of people you meet with, and for how long—depend on which role you’ve applied to, but we’ll be mindful of your time. If applying for more than one role, you should anticipate potentially interviewing with multiple groups of interviewers. Please let us know if you have any scheduling considerations, time constraints, or deadlines from other processes.
Phone Interviews
Find a quiet location with good reception. Please let your interviewer know if you’re having difficulty hearing them.
Virtual Interviews
Please be a few minutes early so you have time to settle in. Technical glitches can happen; we encourage you to test your setup ahead of time,but don’t hesitate to let your interviewer know if you’re having any difficulties connecting.
Wear what makes you comfortable. We don’t have a dress code for interviewees (or employees).
Tip: Consider having something nearby to take notes on during your conversations.
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Internships
We’re looking for exceptional students from all backgrounds to join our internship program.
As an intern, you’ll focus on some of the most challenging and interesting problems in finance and technology, whilelearning from experienced managers, tailored educational programming, and distinguished guest speakers.You’ll also share in community-building social events with fellow interns and employees.
Applications for our summer 2024 internships are open.
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Is this Internship for Me? (Yes!)
We encourage undergraduate and graduate students from all academic disciplines, schools, and class years to apply,though most of our interns join us the summer before they graduate.
If you haven’t previously considered finance as a career, that’s great! Though it’s also great if you have. We’re moreinterested in your judgement, ability to learn, and drive than any particular skill or experience; no test scores or priorexposure to finance are required. If you thrive in a principled, collaborative, and intellectually curious environment,you should feel at home with us.
Application Details
Most of our interns work in our New York City headquarters, but we also have openings in London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore (when you apply, you can state your office interest). We provide housing support to interns. Summer internships typically run from June to August.
We consider applications on a rolling basis to accommodate a range of recruiting timelines and student obligations. That said, as we typically complete the selection of our intern class early in the first quarter of the internship year, we recommend applying for 2024 internships by year-end 2023.
Pleasecontact usif you have any questions.
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The Work: Our Teams
We’re hiring interns to join groups that span the breadth of our firm:
Interns work in the Office of the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Corporate Development, Human Capital, Investor Relations, Legal & Compliance, Risk, Treasury, and other groups. These groups help the firm evaluate complex business questions: e.g., how market volatility impacts profitability, how to expand a strategy in a new geography, how competitor returns covary with market factors, how to assess different indicators of talent, how to gauge investor demand elasticity, how to understand the impact of proposed regulation, how different risk measures behave in a financial crisis, how to optimize financing for our funds, and many others.
Interns work in Asset-Backed, Corporate Credit, Discretionary Macro, Energy, Fundamental Equities, Renewable Energy, and other discretionary strategies. These strategies benefit from a highly rigorous and process-driven approach, while relying primarily on human analysis to discover, diligence, and pursue attractive investment opportunities.
Interns work in Equities, Futures, and other systematic strategies. These strategies deploy quantitative and computational techniques, in combination with a sophisticated technology platform, that have been developed over the life of our firm. Systematic teams develop new tools for the analysis of financial instruments; form, test, and validate hypotheses to try to identify persistent market inefficiencies; and design and implement other investment process innovations.
Interns work in Client Application Engineering, Information Security, Program Management, Quant Systems, and Web Engineering. Systems administrators manage, support, and automate enterprise technology including our storage and clustered computing solutions. Systems technologists design and develop our global technology infrastructure including application engineering, database infrastructure, and web development.
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Enrichment
In addition to having access to the wide range of resources available to full-time employees such as our employee affinity groups, you’ll take part in an extensive intern development program, including training, speakers, and planned (virtual) social activities.
Below are some of our recent speakers:
- Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus at Princeton University, on “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”
- Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor of computer science at UCLA, on researching epidemic models guided by machine learning for COVID-19 forecasts
- César Hidalgo, chair of the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Institute at the University of Toulouse and former director of MIT’s Collective Learning group, on global economic inequality
- Gabby Rivera, author of the Marvel comic book America, on the link between diversity and creativity
You’ll also get to explore the world beyond our offices through private museum tours, food outings, and firm-sponsored music and film festivals.
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The Work: Real Projects
As an intern, you’ll work individually and in teams to tackle complex projects that directly influence the firm’s business decisions.
Below are some examples of past intern projects:
- Developing and presenting a recommendation on an information-security hardware company; performing thematic research on work-from-home trends (Fundamental Research Analyst Intern)
- Reviewing macro-level conditions in an emerging market country and understanding the drivers of its currency; exploring the impact of electric vehicles and battery technologies on global power markets (Proprietary Trader Intern)
- Analyzing social media data pertaining to public securities using machine learning and natural language processing techniques (Quantitative Analyst Intern)
- Optimizing and automating large-scale infrastructure operations; enhancing our security information and event management systems (Systems Technologist Intern)
- Evaluating the costs and benefits of opening an office in another country; exploring the regulatory status of cryptocurrency (Generalist Intern)
Application Details
Most of our interns work in our New York City headquarters, but we also have openings in London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore (when you apply, you can state your office interest). We provide housing support to interns. Summer internships typically run from June to August.
We consider applications on a rolling basis to accommodate a range of recruiting timelines and student obligations. That said, as we typically complete the selection of our intern class early in the first quarter of the internship year, we recommend applying for 2024 internships by year-end 2023.
Pleasecontact usif you have any questions.
Fellowship Program
We’ve designed a set of unique educational opportunities in an effort to bringtogether talented and intellectually curious students and provide them with exposure to what we do at theD.E.Shawgroup.
The fellowships include an introduction to our firm, insights into ourrigorous approach to finance, and several professional and social networking opportunities. Studentsattending U.S. colleges and universities from all academic disciplines, including those without a backgroundin finance, are welcome to apply. Below is a sampling of fellowships we host; for the most up-to-date informationon our programs, please visit our fellowship website.
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Our Fellowships:
The Discovery Fellowship
A three-day program open to undergraduate women in their sophom*ore year.
The Latitude Fellowship
A three-day program open to undergraduate students in their sophom*ore yearwho self-identify with a historically underrepresented minority group in finance and technology.
The Momentum Fellowship
A three-day program open to undergraduate students in their sophom*ore yearwho self-identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
The Nexus Fellowship
A three-day program open to all undergraduate students in their sophom*ore year.
Application FAQ
To explore career opportunities and to apply for positions within the firm, please visit our job openings.
An actual human will review your application. If we think there might be a good match between your background and our needs, we’ll schedule a phone interview. If we find a mutualinterest, one or more virtual interviews would follow.
We apologize for any difficulties you encountered while trying to apply. Our application form works in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari, so please try to access the formthrough one of those browsers. If all else fails, please feel free to send your resume to careers@deshaw.com.Be sure tospecify the position(s) for which you would liketo be considered, and we may follow up to request additional information that would have been included on the application form.
Be sure to fill out each of the required fields in this section. Our recruiting practices are based on the collection of a wide range of information about each candidate, but you may skip any portion of the form that clearly does not apply to your case.
At the D.E.Shaw group, we value clear and concise written communication. We’re interested in seeing how you write: your sample can be a piece of writingfor work, school, or fun, and could include an essay, article, proposal, legal brief, or term paper. The sample should be an expository piece of work writtenin English, several pages in length (but no longer than 15 pages; an excerpt from a larger work is welcome), and entirely your own work, unedited by anyone else.Please don’t send cover letters, resumes, technical writing, creative writing (i.e., fiction), or statements of purpose as your writing sample.You’re welcome to improve the piece yourself if it’s been a few years since you wrote it—we’d love to see something you’re particularly proud of!
Yes, you can apply for multiple positions through our job openings. We will also consider your application for any other positions we deemrelevant to your background and experience, regardless of the positions in which you’ve expressed interest on your application.
Yes, if we hire someone requiring work authorization, we will work with that person to apply for such authorization.
We require employees in the United States to either be up to date on Covid‑19 vaccinations, including one booster dose if eligible, or test negative for Covid‑19 on a weekly basis. Our vaccination policies for offices outside of the United States vary by location.
Yes. Our offices are open on a hybrid work schedule, with most employees coming into the office three days a week.
