2027 Research and Portfolio Management Engineering Summer Analyst

AQR is recruiting for 2027 Research and Portfolio Management Engineering Summer Analyst in Greenwich, CT. This listing was last seen on the firm's own job board on August 22, 2026.

Academic factor investing run at scale, where knowing the literature is a genuine interview advantage.

What sets AQR apart: Published research culture with named academic founders. Factor investing rather than high frequency signals. Interviews reward knowing the finance literature.

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The role, as AQR describes it, published on May 26, 2026 and reproduced from their job board:

About AQR Capital Management

AQR is a global investment firm built at the intersection of financial theory and practical application. We strive to deliver concrete, long-term results by looking past market noise to identify and isolate the factors that matter most, and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing. By putting theory into practice, we have become a leader in alternative strategies and an innovator in traditional portfolio management since 1998.

At AQR, our employees share a common spirit of academic excellence, intellectual honesty and an unwavering commitment to seeking the truth. We’re determined to know what makes financial markets tick – and we’ll ask every question and challenge every assumption. We recognize and respect the power of collaboration, and believe transparency and openness to new ideas leads to innovation.

Your Role

The process of turning quantitative insights into actionable investment strategies is a critical component of AQR’s success, and as an Analyst in Research and Portfolio Management Engineering/Development you will work closely with researchers to create new systematic investment strategies and refine existing ones, applying technology expertise along with a practical understanding of markets to implement research ideas and develop systems that further enable the business. You will also help to maintain a sophisticated infrastructure and tooling environment in support of the business, as well as a complex production process including orchestrating numerous workflows with large amounts of data.

As a software engineer at AQR, you will build or extend our:

Data ingestion and validation engine

Portfolio Rebalancing and Order Generation Platform and Services

Backtesters and related historical simulation tools

Scalable, AWS-based storage and computing infrastructure

What You’ll Bring