19 hours ago
Base Salary
$100k - $110k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a backlog of prioritized enterprise AI use cases from ideation through adoption.
- Gather and refine requirements with business stakeholders and translate ambiguous problems into scoped solutions.
- Design, build, test, and roll out AI solutions for end users.
- Track adoption and impact after launch.
- Partner with the Platform & Tools function and build on shared AI infrastructure, services, APIs, SDKs, and evaluation tooling.
- Collaborate with senior team members and provide feedback on platform needs.
Requirements
- Pursuing or holding a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in a technical field such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, or electrical engineering, ideally with one year remaining in the academic program.
- Excellent Python programming skills; Go, Java, or TypeScript experience is a bonus.
- Working understanding of building and operating LLM-based applications, including prompting, retrieval, agents, and model APIs.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear requirements and deliverable solutions.
- Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with non-technical business stakeholders.
- Creative problem-solving ability, bias toward shipping end-to-end solutions, and strong attention to detail.
- Previous financial industry experience is preferred but not required.
- Hands-on exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and shared internal services, APIs, or SDKs is preferred.
- Experience delivering projects to end users, including requirements gathering, testing, and measuring usage, is preferred.
Benefits
- 10-week summer internship with potential conversion to a full-time offer.
- New York City metro area location.
- Dedicated manager and mentor throughout the internship and beyond.
- Learning sessions with senior leaders, hands-on skills workshops, networking events, and social activities.
- Opportunities to connect with peers and learn how different functions support the firm.
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About Schonfeld
Schonfeld is a privately held, multi-manager hedge fund that allocates capital to internal and external portfolio managers across quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading, and discretionary macro/fixed-income strategies. The firm manages money for institutional and other sophisticated investors and supports teams with proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York, it operates globally with an investing footprint spanning five continents.