BTIG

BTIG runs a single eight-week Summer Internship Program for undergraduate and graduate students, split across three department tracks:

• Investment Banking — project work on strategic-advisory and capital-markets assignments
• Research and Strategy — sector-focused analyst support across consumer, energy and infrastructure, financials, healthcare, real estate, and TMT
• Fixed Income & Equities — on-desk sales and trading exposure

The US programme is based in New York and San Francisco; a parallel UK programme runs out of London on identical dates (firm 2026 UK intern brochure). The firm publishes no separate spring week, insight day, or named multi-year graduate scheme — the summer programme is its only structured first-year route in. For a candidate comparing it with bulge-bracket peers, the trade-off is structural: a narrower per-cohort headcount but eight weeks attached to a single producing desk rather than rotating across teams.

No. The firm's 2026 UK intern brochure states that candidates must have UK Settlement Status and that BTIG "does not offer sponsorship for work visas of any type." The published US 2026 Summer Internship posting carries the same condition: applicants "must be authorized to work full time in the U.S., as BTIG does not offer sponsorship for work visas of any type." For an international student weighing BTIG against bulge-bracket banks and the larger consultancies — most of which do sponsor — the firm is a hard gate, not a soft preference, and an application is only viable with pre-existing US or UK work rights.

The 2026 BTIG Summer Internship Program runs 22 June 2026 to 21 August 2026 across the US (New York, San Francisco) and the UK (London), per the firm's 2026 UK intern brochure. Applications are submitted through the firm's Greenhouse portal, which carries an explicit "late applications will not be considered" note but does not publish a fixed close date — the posting is open until pulled and reviewed on a rolling basis. The cycle opens in early autumn of the prior year (the UK brochure was published October 2025; the US posting was reposted ahead of the 2026 cycle). With one cohort a year and no off-cycle, spring, or insight programme, a candidate who misses the autumn window is locked out until the following year, and because review is rolling the earliest submitted applications are read first.

BTIG was founded in 2002 by Steven Starker, a former Goldman Sachs equity-trading partner, and Scott Kovalik, and remains majority-owned by its employees following a minority equity investment by Goldman Sachs in 2007 (firm news release; corroborated by Traders Magazine coverage). It now operates from 20 offices across the US, Europe (London, Oslo), Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo) and Australia (Sydney, Melbourne) with 700+ employees, and reports 1,275+ investment-banking transactions announced since January 2015, 500+ companies under research coverage, and 385+ prime-brokerage clients (firm about page). The product set is narrow by design — institutional sales and trading, investment banking, prime and outsourced trading, and research — rather than the dozen-plus business lines of a universal bank. For an undergraduate comparing it with a bulge-bracket bank, the texture is structural: a privately-held partnership, no separate rotational analyst class, and an internship that places the intern directly on a producing desk in their chosen track from day one.

BTIG currently has no open internship or graduate roles listed on Jorb AI. This page updates continuously; check back as new postings rotate.

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