2027 Summer Internship - MS/PhD Data Scientist, Proprietary Research

🏢 Point72 · 📍 New York, NY 💰 $130,000 - $130,000 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

A Career with Point72’s Market Intelligence Team

On our proprietary research team—Market Intelligence—you’ll support Analytics team members as they work with our investment professionals and Compliance team to uncover insights about companies, industries, and the broader economy through deep fundamental research and applying data science and engineering techniques to alternative data sets. You’ll work alongside a talented team with diverse skills, backgrounds, and perspectives.

Our industry researchers, product managers, and data scientists and engineers work together to build compliant research products that answer the questions our investment professionals care about most. We look for other bright, motivated, and collaborative people to join our team and grow with us.

About the MS/PhD Data Scientist Internship

Our data scientists conduct research through data mining and statistical modeling to discover insights from large, complex data sets that are used by our investment professionals to make investment decisions.

During the 10-week program based in our New York office, you will gain exposure to:

A highly collegial environment that emphasizes tea

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Point72 Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Inspecting rigorous analytical capabilities, intellectual humility, risk management discipline, and high-pressure performance endurance.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Arrogance or defensiveness when holes are poked in their logic or models
2. Relying on consensus opinions without forming an independent, differentiated view
3. Poor risk awareness or ignoring downside scenarios in favor of upside storytelling

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I combine rigorous quantitative modeling with disciplined risk management to uncover asymmetric opportunities in complex markets.

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