Aquatic Capital Management

Aquatic's campus openings list five named tracks across its Chicago, New York and London offices:

• Quantitative Researcher, Intern (Summer 2027): Chicago, London
• Software Engineer, Intern (Summer 2027): Chicago
• Quantitative Researcher, Early Career (full-time): Chicago, New York
• Software Engineer, Early Career (full-time): Chicago, New York
• Quantitative Researcher, PhD (full-time): Chicago, New York

Intern eligibility is restricted to students with an expected graduation date between Fall 2027 and Spring 2028, and student applications run through a dedicated campusrecruiting@aquatic.com channel kept separate from experienced-hire intake. The campus funnel is narrow and explicit: a candidate building a shortlist of systematic-quant employers is picking between named tracks here, not opting into a broad rotational programme.

It runs systematic investment strategies from three offices – Chicago (HQ), New York and London – and splits its campus pipeline by degree on the careers portal into a BS/MS-eligible Early Career role and a PhD-only research role. The firm also maintains a public open-source presence under "aquanauts" on GitHub. For an applicant weighing Aquatic against the larger Citadel- or Two-Sigma-scale desks, the prioritisation call comes down to scale: a small founder-led research team, with the campus entry gated by degree level, rather than rotation across multiple business lines.