Quantitative Researcher/Developer (Internship)

Quantitative Researcher/Developer Internship

About EvarInvest

EvarInvest is an innovative boutique investment management firm dedicated to delivering sophisticated quantitative investment solutions to institutional clients. Our distinctive approach draws inspiration from complex systems theory and entropy principles, seamlessly integrated with our deep derivatives expertise to generate resilient performance across market cycles.

Your Impact

As a Quantitative Researcher/Developer Intern, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our analytics ecosystem spanning backtesting, risk assessment, and reporting capabilities. You'll collaborate directly with our portfolio managers and research team to:

• Design and implement robust market data solutions

• Create sophisticated analytics and backtesting frameworks for systematic trading strategies

• Optimize our existing infrastructure to expand functionality and performance

Working within our collaborative environment, you'll engage in daily discussions about investment hypotheses, implementation approaches, and results analysis. This position offers exposure to the complete investment lifecycle—from data acquisition and processing to strategy development and deployment.

In our lean, agile organization, your contributions will have immediate visibility and meaningful impact across multiple projects and initiatives.

Ideal Qualifications

• Master's degree (M2) candidate (M1 candidates won't qualify) in Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Machine Learning, or Physics
• Strong proficiency in Python with demonstrated expertise in software development best practices (Git version control, containerization, MLOps)
• Additional programming skills appreciated, particularly front-end development experience
• Solid understanding of financial markets with emphasis on derivative instruments
• Experience with backtesting frameworks, statistical trading methodologies, risk analytics, and portfolio construction techniques
• Familiarity applying signal processing and machine learning algorithms to investment strategies
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly
• Fluency in French required

Details

Location: Paris office (7th arrondissement, near Invalides)

Duration: 6 months

Application: Submit your resume and a brief cover letter to stages@evarinvest.com