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Quantitative Research Intern

Astera Holdings
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Quant Intern @ Astera Holdings

Location: Remote (U.S. preferred)

Type: Internship

Reports to: Head of Quantitative Trading

About Astera Holdings:

Astera Holdings is a quantitative intelligence firm rearchitecting prediction markets into a legitimate financial asset class. We are building the Renaissance Technologies of event investing — uniting world-class research, infrastructure, and AI to extract alpha from uncertainty itself.

Our ecosystem spans three synergistic divisions:

  • Atlas (B2C): The world’s first AI operating system for event investing.
     
  • Astera Capital (Hedgefund): A multi-fund quantitative platform trading sports, economic, and political outcomes.
     
  • Astera Analytics (Enterprise AI): Deploying our intelligence engine to solve real-world problems across industries.
     

We operate under a single principle — meritocracy of minds. Every decision, from modeling to design, is grounded in scientific rigor, radical intellectual honesty, and speed of execution.

The Role: Quant Intern @ Astera Holdings

Astera Holdings is actively seeking exceptional interns to join our R&D team. This is not a single role, but a call for elite talent to fill three distinct, high-impact internship positions that address critical operational gaps in our quantitative research and trading lifecycle:

  • Data Engineer Intern
  • Quantitative Researcher (QR) Intern
  • MLOps Engineer Intern

As an intern on our Quant team, you will be instrumental in building the core infrastructure and processes that power our advanced quantitative strategies and AI engine. Your work will directly bridge theoretical research with live production systems, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our proprietary trading and analytical platforms. This is an opportunity for high-agency doers to contribute directly to live systems at the heart of our product, research, and trading strategy—this is not a sandbox role.

What You'll Do

  • Transform research prototypes into live, production-grade systems.
     
  • Collaborate with senior engineers and quants on model development and infrastructure design.
     
  • Optimize data pipelines for speed, scale, and reliability.
     
  • Contribute to the Reflexivity Engine — the AI core driving all Astera products.
     
  • Directly impact the live performance of trading and predictive systems.

What You'll Bring

  • Pursuing or recently completed a degree in CS, Data Science, Applied Math, Statistics, or a related quantitative field at a top-tier university.
     
  • Expert-level Python; experience with C++ or Go a strong plus.
     
  • Experience in at least one relevant domain:

    • Data Engineering: Airflow, BigQuery, Snowflake, SQL.
       
    • Quantitative Research: ML modeling, time series analysis, backtesting.
       
    • MLOps/DevOps: Terraform, CI/CD, AWS/GCP, container orchestration.
       
  • First-principles thinker. High intellectual rigor. Low ego.
     
  • Obsession with building, not theorizing.
     

Why Intern With Astera?

  • Production-first work: Your code ships — not to a sandbox, but into live systems.
     
  • Mentorship: Work directly with senior engineers and quant leaders.
     
  • Exposure: Build the same systems used to manage institutional capital.
     
  • Velocity: We move fast, stay lean, and measure output by impact — not hours.
     
  • Future Path: Top interns are invited for full-time roles across quant research, data, and AI infrastructure.

To Apply

Please send your application to careers@astera.holdings