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About the Role
Join our Quantitative Strategies and Research (QSR) team within Capital Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan as an intern. Explore and build new systematic investment strategies using your research skills and curiosity about markets. We manage a diversified portfolio using quantitative models and are looking for interns for Winter 2026.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to QSR’s broad research and development initiatives.
- Apply quantitative techniques to explore and test investment and portfolio hypotheses.
- Review, critique, and implement research papers.
- Present and discuss results with the team and gather feedback.
- Work on a variety of datasets, including sourcing, cleaning, visualization, and predictive modeling.
- Propose original ideas and test them on real-world data.
- Gain experience in various asset classes such as equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities.
- Contribute to the development and optimization of portfolio implementation infrastructure and analytical tools.
Requirements
- Must be enrolled in a Master’s or Ph.D. program or an upper-year undergraduate program with a strong quantitative research and/or technology foundation (e.g., math, stats, computer science, engineering, economics).
- Demonstrated passion for research through academic work (e.g., published papers, research projects, theses) or personal projects.
- Broad programming experience, particularly in scientific programming (Matlab and Python).
- Curiosity and interest in applying research and technology to understand markets and build portfolio systems.
- Must be returning to studies after the work term is completed.
- Must be legally entitled to work in the country where the role is located.
Skills
- Quantitative research
- Data science
- Statistics
- Programming
- Matlab
- Python
- Machine learning
- Optimization
- Data sourcing
- Data cleaning
- Data visualization
- Predictive modeling
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Internship
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Intern
- Undergraduate
- Master's
- Ph.D.
Education Level
- Master's program
- Ph.D. program
- Upper-year undergraduate program
Salary/Compensations
- $30 - $36 per hour
Benefits
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Lunch and learns
- Student led team building events
- Employee discount programs (Edvantage and Perkopolis)
About the Company
- We are Quantitative Strategies and Research (QSR), an innovation-driven team within Capital Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
- We manage a broad and diversified portfolio, built using quantitative models.
- As a member of Capital Markets, a dynamic team of more than 80 investment professionals working across liquid markets, you will have unparalleled opportunities to meet and learn from people with different areas of expertise and approaches to investing!
- At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience.
- We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves.
Equal Opportunity
- Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring.
- Accommodations are available upon request (peopleandculture@otpp.com) for candidates with a disability taking part in the recruitment process and once hired.
- Ontario Teachers’ may use AI-based tools to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position. These tools may help us identify candidates whose skills and experience align with Ontario Teachers’ objectives by analyzing information provided in resumes and applications. Our use of AI does not replace human decision-making.