What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2025 Software Engineering Summer Analyst - Cloud Services position at AQR Capital Management?
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.
The Internship Program
Our 10-week summer program puts real work of the firm in your hands. You will work alongside brilliant people, gain insights and know-how from our Quanta Academy Summer Term curriculum, and experience what it’s like to work at the pinnacle of global, systematic investing.
Learning is the cornerstone of our culture and plays an active role in the internship experience — through daily collaboration and interaction with employees at all levels, in workshops and classes, and most significantly by working on projects that matter to the many clients we serve. Our unique AQR Quanta Academy: Summer Term learning series, a structured program, consists of over 40 hours of educational, skill-building and networking events.
Your Role
Are you an intelligent and creative thinker? Do you enjoy finding elegant technical solutions to complex problems? Are you interested in seeing an impact of your work in real life? We are looking for innovative and passionate undergraduates to join our Cloud Engineering team as summer analysts.
Applications running in the Cloud need to be architected correctly, enabling them to reap the benefits of elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation and high availability. On the AWS platform, services such as EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Lambda, Elastic Container Service and S3, are some of the building blocks that enable the design and development of Cloud-ready applications.
Focus Areas
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.
The Internship Program
Our 10-week summer program puts real work of the firm in your hands. You will work alongside brilliant people, gain insights and know-how from our Quanta Academy Summer Term curriculum, and experience what it’s like to work at the pinnacle of global, systematic investing.
Learning is the cornerstone of our culture and plays an active role in the internship experience — through daily collaboration and interaction with employees at all levels, in workshops and classes, and most significantly by working on projects that matter to the many clients we serve. Our unique AQR Quanta Academy: Summer Term learning series, a structured program, consists of over 40 hours of educational, skill-building and networking events.
Your Role
Are you an intelligent and creative thinker? Do you enjoy finding elegant technical solutions to complex problems? Are you interested in seeing an impact of your work in real life? We are looking for innovative and passionate undergraduates to join our Cloud Engineering team as summer analysts.
Applications running in the Cloud need to be architected correctly, enabling them to reap the benefits of elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation and high availability. On the AWS platform, services such as EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Lambda, Elastic Container Service and S3, are some of the building blocks that enable the design and development of Cloud-ready applications.
Focus Areas
- Helping architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services
- Architecting and developing applications to be cloud optimized
- Working as both an infrastructure and application development specialist
- Agile software development and DevOps
- Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment
- Python
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Infrastructure Application Services such as RabbitMQ, Redis and Postgres
- Developer tools such as Git, Jenkins and Artifactory
- December 2025 or Spring 2026 graduate in a Computer Science related program
- Committed to intellectual integrity, with a high degree of ethics
- Mature and thoughtful, with the ability to operate within a collaborative, team-oriented culture
- Hard working and eager to learn in a highly intellectual, innovative environment
- Well–organized, detail–oriented; able to multi–task and keep track of various deadlines
- Look beyond the surface level to understand the underlying details