How do I apply to the D. E. Shaw group?

To explore career opportunities and to apply for positions within the firm, please visit our job openings.

What happens after I submit my application?

An actual human will review your application. If we think there might be a good match between your background and our needs, we’ll schedule a phone interview. If we find a mutual interest, one or more in-person interviews at our offices would follow.

I’m having difficulty submitting my application. What should I do?

We apologize for any difficulties you encountered while trying to apply. Our application form works in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari, so please try to access the form through one of those browsers. If all else fails, please feel free to send your resume to careers@deshaw.com. Be sure to specify the position(s) for which you would like to be considered, and we may follow up to request additional information that would have been included on the application form.

How do I fill out the educational background section?

Be sure to fill out each of the required fields in this section. Our recruiting practices are based on the collection of a wide range of information about each candidate, but you may skip any portion of the form that clearly does not apply to your case.

What is an appropriate writing sample submission?

There is no suggested topic for the writing sample. We’re interested in seeing a sample that demonstrates superior writing skills. In other words, it can be something you wrote for work, school, or pleasure, and could include an essay, article, legal brief, term paper, or dissertation. The sample should be entirely your own work, unedited by anyone else. However, you should feel free to improve the piece yourself if it’s been a few years since you wrote it.

Can I apply for multiple positions?

Yes, you can apply for multiple positions through our job openings. We will also consider your application for any other positions we deem relevant to your background and experience, regardless of the positions in which you’ve expressed interest on your application.

Do you sponsor work authorization for international candidates?

Yes, if we hire someone requiring work authorization, we will work with that person to apply for such authorization.

Can employees work from home?

We have a hybrid work schedule, with most employees coming into the office three days a week.

How To Join

The D. E. Shaw group is a home for curious minds. We have high ethical standards and enjoy solving difficult problems. Joining our team means you’ll work with a creative, socially conscious, and (occasionally) nerdy set of individuals. We thrive on diversity—in life experiences, fields of study, and ways of thinking (to name just a few). Click here to apply. We welcome exceptional applicants from all backgrounds.

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Career Development

To ensure that our curious staff never stop learning, we offer onsite and online courses to aid in professional development, we utilize a supportive mentorship system, and we bring in leading thinkers from academia and industry to discuss everything from space exploration to the physics of cooking. We also curate a Technical Speaker series dedicated to computing, economics, machine learning, and statistics. Our goal is to give all of our staff the opportunity to grow through challenging work, friendly colleagues, and a culture of continuous learning.

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Choose Your Path

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Interviewing

Interviewing is important to our hiring process. As we get to know you better, you’ll get the chance to know our firm better, too.

Compelling candidates tend to:

If you want to learn more about our approach to interviewing, our guide to preparing for an interview can help you put your best foot forward.

A successful hiring process often includes an application review, a phone interview and virtual interviews, conversations with your references, and, finally, an offer. We may also ask you to provide a writing sample or code sample, and to complete a case study. Depending on the role, your process may differ slightly.

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Internships

We’re looking for exceptional students from all backgrounds to join our internship program.

As an intern, you’ll focus on some of the most challenging and interesting problems in finance and technology, while learning from experienced managers, tailored educational programming, and distinguished guest speakers. You’ll also share in community-building social events with fellow interns and employees.

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Is this Internship for Me? (Yes!)

We encourage undergraduate and graduate students from all academic disciplines, schools, and class years to apply, though most of our interns join us the summer before they graduate.

If you haven’t previously considered finance as a career, that’s great! Though it’s also great if you have. We’re more interested in talent, curiosity, and analytical thinking than in any particular skill or experience, and we’re excited to see how you’ve demonstrated initiative and what you’ve achieved. If you thrive in a principled, collaborative, and intellectually curious environment, you should feel at home with us.

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Application Details

Most of our interns work in our New York City headquarters. Others work in Denver, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore (when you apply, you can state your office interest). We provide housing support to interns. Summer internships typically run from June to August.

We consider applications on a rolling basis to accommodate a range of recruiting timelines and student obligations. That said, as we typically complete the selection of our intern class early in the first quarter of the internship year, we recommend applying for 2025 internships by year-end 2024.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

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The Work: Our Teams

Our business units fall into the following broad areas:

Our business operations groups address key questions related to talent assessment and development, capital usage and investment returns, regulatory and legal changes, market and economic risks, and many other areas that affect our firm. Employees in these groups engage in wide-ranging, collaborative endeavors using the rigorous analysis and project management skills they’ve developed while at the firm and elsewhere.
Our discretionary investment strategies rely primarily on human analysis to discover, analyze, and pursue attractive investment opportunities that span public and private markets around the globe. Traders and research analysts drive investment decision-making, and they integrate a number of technological tools and analytical techniques into their approach.
Since 2005, we’ve invested in more than 70 renewable energy projects. Today, D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (“DESRI”) is a leading developer, owner, and operator of renewable energy projects across the United States. Members of the DESRI team build and evaluate financial models for prospective investments, research new areas of the renewable energy market, and work with DESRI’s in-house legal team on M&A and project finance transactions.
Our strategy and business development groups evaluate complex questions that influence our long-term direction, including ones related to marketplace dynamics, product design and marketing strategy, analysis of firm profitability, and opportunities for strategic expansion. Members of these groups take on projects that require rigorous analytical thinking and creative problem solving, such as investigating which markets our investment strategies should target for expansion, evaluating whether and where to open a new office, researching prospective new investors for our funds, or developing a plan for launching a new fund.
Our systematic investment strategies run on quantitative and computational techniques that we’ve developed over more than 35 years of research and trading. We believe that rigorous analysis and scientific research, supported by robust data and technological infrastructure, is the bedrock of successful systematic investing. Members of our systematic investing teams conduct research on innovative systematic forecasting, risk management, and portfolio construction techniques that form the basis of our process.
Our systems teams oversee and support our enterprise-level technology and network infrastructure, including the storage and clustered computing solutions used across the firm. Members of these teams design and develop technology that supports initiatives related to core systems, application engineering, platform engineering, database infrastructure, productivity and collaboration, web development, and information security.

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Enrichment

In addition to having access to the wide range of resources available to full-time employees such as our employee affinity groups, you’ll take part in an extensive intern development program, including training, speakers, and planned social activities.

Guest speakers have included:

Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus at Princeton University, on “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”
Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor of computer science at UCLA, on researching epidemic models guided by machine learning for COVID-19 forecasts
César Hidalgo, chair of the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Institute at the University of Toulouse and former director of MIT’s Collective Learning group, on global economic inequality
Gabby Rivera, author of the Marvel comic book America, on the link between diversity and creativity

You’ll also get to explore the world beyond our offices through events such as private museum tours, food outings, and firm-sponsored music and film festivals.

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The Work: Real Projects

As an intern, you’ll work individually and in teams to tackle complex projects that directly influence the firm’s business decisions.

Below are some examples of past intern projects:

Developing and presenting a recommendation on an information-security hardware company (Fundamental Research Analyst Intern)
Comparing methods for detecting changes in risk environments and notable shifts in market dynamics (Generalist Intern)
Reviewing macro-level conditions in an emerging market country and understanding the drivers of its currency (Proprietary Trader Intern)
Developing a new risk factor based on social media sentiment scoring using natural language processing techniques (Quantitative Analyst Intern)
Writing a parallel hyperparameter optimization library that reduces the execution time of simulations while maintaining their quality (Software Developer Intern)
Exploring how the firm might extend its private credit franchise in the Asia-Pacific region (Strategy and Business Development Intern)
Enhancing the firm’s authorization system with an event-driven approach to updates (Systems: Engineering Intern)

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Application Details

Please contact us if you have any questions.

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Fellowship Program

Since 2016, we’ve hosted a set of unique educational opportunities aiming to bring together talented and intellectually curious students and provide them with exposure to what we do at the D. E. Shaw group.

The fellowships include an introduction to our firm, insights into our rigorous approach to finance and technology, and several professional and social networking opportunities. Students attending U.S. colleges and universities from all academic disciplines, including those without a background in finance, are welcome to apply. Below is a sampling of fellowships we host; for the most up-to-date information on our programs, please visit our fellowship website.

A three-day program open to second-year students currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate program at a U.S. college or university who self-identify as women.

A three-day program open to second-year students currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate program at a U.S. college or university who self-identify as Native American or Alaska Native, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, or Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.

A three-day program open to second-year students currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate program at a U.S. college or university who self-identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

A three-day program open to all second-year students currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate program at a U.S. college or university.

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Application FAQ

To explore career opportunities and to apply for positions within the firm, please visit our job openings.
An actual human will review your application. If we think there might be a good match between your background and our needs, we’ll schedule a phone interview. If we find a mutual interest, one or more virtual interviews would follow.
We apologize for any difficulties you encountered while trying to apply. Our application form works in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari, so please try to access the form through one of those browsers. If all else fails, please feel free to send your resume to [email protected]. Be sure to specify the position(s) for which you would like to be considered, and we may follow up to request additional information that would have been included on the application form.
Be sure to fill out each of the required fields in this section. Our recruiting practices are based on the collection of a wide range of information about each candidate, but you may skip any portion of the form that clearly does not apply to your case.
At the D. E. Shaw group, we value clear and concise written communication. We’re interested in seeing how you write: your sample can be for work, school, or fun, and could include an essay, article, proposal, legal brief, term paper, or (for relevant roles) technical writing. The sample should be an expository piece of work written in English, several pages in length (but no longer than 15 pages; an excerpt from a larger work is welcome), and entirely your own work, unedited by anyone else. Please don’t send cover letters, resumes, creative writing (i.e., fiction), or statements of purpose as your writing sample. You’re welcome to improve the piece yourself if it’s been a few years since you wrote it—we’d love to see something you’re particularly proud of!
Yes, you can apply for multiple positions through our job openings. We will also consider your application for any other positions we deem relevant to your background and experience, regardless of the positions in which you’ve expressed interest on your application.
Yes, if we hire someone requiring work authorization, we will work with that person to apply for such authorization.
We have a hybrid work schedule, with most employees coming into the office three days a week.

How To Join

Career Development

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Internships