Generalist Intern (New York) – Summer 2024

You’ll take on projects that require rigorous analytical thinking and creative problem solving. You might examine the impact of proposed regulation, investigate how various risk measures behave in a financial crisis, evaluate how to assess different indicators of talent, help generate content for an internal and external video campaign, or research interview approaches and design case studies.

Throughout the summer, you’ll work closely with your manager and other mentors who will support your professional development. You’ll participate in our robust, customized learning curriculum, which is designed to help you strengthen your skills, learn new ones, and build a strong foundational knowledge of our firm and industry. You’ll also have regular opportunities to learn from internal and external experts, get to know employees across the firm, and enjoy events and outings like volunteer days, Broadway musicals, and intern game nights.

• Most importantly, and in keeping with our firm’s culture, we’re more interested in talent, curiosity, and initiative than we are in any particular skill or experience.
• We’re interested in highly analytical, accomplished students. Generalist interns communicate effectively (verbally and in writing), solve problems creatively, and thrive on collaboration.
• You don’t need any previous finance knowledge or experience. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals from all academic disciplines. We’ll help you learn everything you need to know through both our training program and hands-on experience working with your manager and colleagues. Recent generalist interns majored in biomedical engineering, art history, physics, literature, economics, and statistics/data science. Students in this program are usually approaching their final year of full-time study.
• The expected monthly base salary for this position is $9,000. Our compensation package includes travel to the internship, overtime for all hours worked over 40 per week, a sign-on bonus, and choice of corporate housing or a summer housing allowance.

At the D. E. Shaw group, we believe the diversity of our employees is core to our strength and success. We are committed to supporting our people in work and in life, which is why we offer benefits such as a family planning and surrogacy program and a charitable gift match to all full-time employees.