3 days ago
Toronto, CanadaIntern
Responsibilities
- Apply advanced machine learning techniques to complex trading-related problems.
- Develop and optimize AI-driven trading algorithms and strategies and incorporate them into client-facing applications.
- Collaborate with traders, researchers, and subject-matter experts to design and implement innovative products.
- Analyze large datasets to derive actionable insights and create impactful visualizations.
- Contribute to projects spanning multiple asset classes and trading strategies.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in Python and knowledge of databases, scripting, Unix systems, data structures, and networking.
- Proficiency in machine learning techniques including feature engineering, loss function design, deep learning, and reinforcement learning.
- Experience with PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and MLflow.
- Experience using large datasets and libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Seaborn, and Streamlit for analysis and visualization.
- Strong understanding of probability concepts and statistical methods.
- Ability to communicate quantitative concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Students must be able to return to school after completing the internship.
- Finance experience is not required.
Benefits
- 16-month co-op running from May 2027 through August 2028.
- Full-time student/co-op position based at Royal Bank Plaza in Toronto, Canada, with 37.5 work hours per week.
- Opportunity to collaborate with industry-leading experts on Canada’s largest trade floor.
- Exposure to real-world AI and machine learning applications in quantitative trading.
- Professional development in a collaborative and innovation-focused environment.
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About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) provides personal and commercial banking, payments, mortgages, investing, wealth management, insurance, and capital markets services to consumers, businesses, and institutions. The public company, headquartered in Toronto and founded in 1864, serves more than 17 million clients across Canada, the U.S., and other global markets. Revenue comes from interest income, fees, advisory, and trading across its diversified financial services businesses, and it is Canada’s largest bank by market capitalization.