Summer Intern 2026 - Investment Management, Fixed Income Platform Engineering
Mackenzie Investments is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $271 billion in assets. They are seeking a Quantitative Developer Intern for the summer term to support the Fixed Income Platform Engineering group by implementing and executing key elements of their investment processes.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and implementation of analytics, research workflows, and decision-support tools for fixed income portfolio management
- Build and maintain software and infrastructure that power systematic research and data workflows
- Help monitor, troubleshoot, and improve live production processes, gaining exposure to real-world systems at scale
- Collaborate with teammates across the platform and portfolio engineering teams, as well as with researchers and portfolio managers across Fixed Income
- Participate actively in a modern software development environment, including version control, testing, and code review
Skills
- Proven academic performance in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or Finance
- Active programming proficiency, with fluency in Python
- Hands-on experience working with large datasets, particularly within the Python ecosystem (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Polars), and working knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Enthusiasm for applying modern development tools and best practices across the entire software application lifecycle
- Foundational understanding of financial markets, and a motivation to deepen knowledge of fixed income and quantitative finance
- Mindset oriented toward independent thinking, curiosity, and creative problem-solving
- High attention to detail and a consistent focus on producing accurate, high-quality work
- Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Ability to contribute in both remote and in-person collaborative environments
- Experience with other languages like JavaScript/TypeScript, C++/Java, MATLAB, R, or Rust is an asset
- Familiarity with statistics, econometrics, and related forecasting techniques
Benefits
- Paid time off
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