Balyasny Asset Management

Balyasny hires interns onto its Investment (Macro, Commodities, Equities), Technology, and Business Infrastructure teams, with most summer internships running 8 to 12 weeks. Successful interns convert into one of several named full-time programs:

• Catalyst (Equities): a 10-week summer internship followed by a 9-month full-time program on the Equities team, open to candidates graduating between Winter 2027 and Spring 2028. International participants spend the first three months in New York for foundational training.
• Fixed Income & Macro: 12-month full-time rotation across two scaling PM teams on a risk-taking track.
• Commodities: 12-month rotation across two scaling PM teams, after which graduates pursue either a risk-taking or research track.
• Technology: 12-month rotation across four different verticals within Technology.
• Bridger: a six-month converter program for candidates with one to five years of financial experience, training in modeling, valuation, pitching, Python, and AI.

The firm states it does not run formal programs for freshmen and sophomores and "prefer[s] interns who are rising seniors," so this is a single junior-year entry point that converts into a structured program at the PM-team level rather than the firm level — a candidate is choosing the team they will rotate into, not just the firm.

Asked directly in its internship FAQ whether the firm sponsors work authorization for international intern candidates, Balyasny answers "Yes." The Catalyst program is also published as open internationally, with all international participants spending the first three months in New York for foundational training. For an international candidate weighing US multi-strategy hedge-fund seats, this matters at the application stage: BAM's intern channel — and Catalyst specifically — is open without the visa gate that closes a number of US fintech and hedge-fund internships up front.

Balyasny tells applicants directly that internships are filled on a rolling basis, with most summer recruiting concentrated in the fall and winter, "a few months before the internship begins," and that postings appear on individual school job boards when the firm is accepting applications. Independent campus career services bear this out: Harvard's career services platform listed the firm's Catalyst Equities Associate Summer 2027 internship with a recruiting start of 5 January 2026. There is no single firm-wide deadline, which has two practical consequences: a candidate watching Balyasny needs both their school's recruiting portal and the firm's open-roles page live by the start of the fall semester; and because rolling review favors earlier submissions, the cycle effectively closes as PM teams fill seats, not on a published date.

Balyasny is a multi-strategy hedge fund founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, with $36 billion in AUM as of 1 May 2026 and more than 2,000 investment and support staff across 20+ global locations. Unlike the typical multi-manager structure that hires graduates into a generalist analyst pool, BAM converts interns directly onto specific PM teams and runs three named 12-month rotational programs (Fixed Income & Macro, Commodities, Technology) plus the Catalyst program for Equities, each tied to scaling PM teams rather than to a central training class. The Bridger program is structurally unusual: it trains modeling, pitching, Python, and AI skills over six months for one-to-five-year hires, treating mid-career converters as a deliberate pipeline rather than a sourcing exception. For an early-career candidate, this means the application choice is partly which strategy and which PM team — not just which firm.

Yes. Balyasny Asset Management currently has 8 open internship and graduate roles on Jorb AI: summer internships, insight programs, graduate schemes, and early-career positions across the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. Postings update continuously as new roles are added and filled.

Balyasny Asset Management has open internship and graduate roles in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. Specific offices and program structure (summer vs year-round, internship vs graduate scheme) vary by region; check individual postings for details.

Applications to Balyasny Asset Management go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. Balyasny Asset Management does not use third-party submission services.