Research Intern - 2022
Company Description
Over the last twenty years, MarketAxess has completely revolutionized the fixed-income market by creating a single platform using proprietary technology that connects the world’s most influential financial institutions. Today, more than 1,800 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms rely on us to bring them accurate market data to assist with their trading decisions, connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing and technology services to optimize trading environments.
Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Leverage MarketAxess’ unique data to build new products and reports
- Take ownership for existing research models and reports
- Analyze corporate bond market activity and market micro-structure
- Work closely with global product and development teams to enrich client trading solutions
- Other duties as assigned
What You Bring to the Table
- Working towards a graduate (masters, PhD) degree in a quantitative field (science, engineering, mathematics, or statistics is preferred), graduating in in Dec 2022 or May 2023
- Superb interpersonal skills.
- Highly analytical, flexible and creative problem solver.
- Well-organized, team-oriented, intellectually curious, and proactive.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills. This will ultimately require a mix of advanced querying / programming capabilities including R/Python, SQL, AWS, Tableau, and possibly intermediate machine learning.
- Introductory understanding of US and global fixed income markets.
- Strong data capabilities, including working with complex datasets.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Additional Information
What’s In It For You?
In addition to working on cutting edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:
- Healthcare and wellness options
- 401(k) match
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Training and tuition assistance
- Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships, exercise equipment and similar, and access to on-site healthcare
MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal and state law.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.