Piper Sandler

Piper Sandler describes its student and junior-professional hiring as a four-stage process: application, an on-demand recorded video interview powered by HireVue, live in-person or virtual interviews with the team you are applying to, and an offer. Candidates are given time to prepare each HireVue question and at least one chance to re-record, and the firm aims to give an update within two weeks of the final interview. Experienced hires follow a "more tailored approach that includes multiple interviews with the team the candidate is applying with." The HireVue gate is front-loaded: a recorded round comes before any live conversation, so a candidate has to do their preparation before knowing who in the team will watch it.

Piper Sandler publishes its student programs across the U.S. and the U.K.:

• U.S. — Investment Banking Analyst & Associate Program plus separate internships in Equities, Fixed Income, Public Finance and Corporate Support; IB Summer Analyst seats sit in Birmingham, Boston, Burlingame, Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, Richmond and San Francisco.
• Minneapolis HQ — Career Exploration Program (CEP), a two-day insight for sophomores that feeds the following year's Summer Analyst class.
• London — three-day Spring Week for first-year (three-year degree) or second-year (four-year degree) students; a nine-to-ten week Summer Analyst Programme; off-cycle internships.
• Aberdeen — twelve-month Student Placement in the energy & power corporate finance team, starting in summer.

The split has practical consequences: the U.S. funnel runs CEP into the following year's IB Summer Analyst class a full year in advance, while the U.K. forces a choice between a year-long Aberdeen placement, a three-day London insight or a London summer position, each on its own application timeline.

For its Aberdeen Student Placement the firm is explicit: "International students will be expected to have the relevant work permit or visa in place prior to commencement of employment. You must have the right to work in the U.K." The firm's published U.S. student-program pages do not address visa sponsorship in the same way, and the London early-careers page is silent on the question as well. A non-U.S. applicant therefore cannot assume a default policy and should treat work authorization as a screening question before applying; the Aberdeen wording in particular puts the cost and timing of any UK visa on the candidate, which narrows that placement to applicants already eligible to work in the United Kingdom at the summer start.

Piper Sandler publishes its 2027 internship recruiting dates by program. For the 2027 cohort the upcoming windows are:

• IB Associate Program: opens August 2026, closes November 2026
• Equities Internship: opens September 2026, closes October 2026
• Fixed Income Internship: opens September 2026, closes October 2026
• Public Finance Internship: opens September 2026, closes October 2026
• Corporate Support Internship: opens September 2026, closes October 2026

The 2027 IB Analyst window opened January 2026 and closed February 2026 — unusually early for the cohort — and the 2026 London Summer Analyst Programme is marked "Positions filled". For an applicant targeting both an IB Associate seat and one of the four non-IB internships, every deadline lands inside a single September-to-November stretch, with all four internship windows closing in October, so the parallel-application load peaks in those weeks.

Piper Sandler is a 130-year-old, NYSE-listed (PIPR) middle-market investment bank with a $6.5 billion market capitalisation as of January 2026, more than 1,850 employees and over 60 offices including London, Aberdeen, Zurich, Munich and Hong Kong alongside its Minneapolis headquarters. The firm reports ranking No. 1 in U.S. bank M&A by number of announced deals in 2025 and No. 1 in Med-Tech M&A advisory by sell-side, buy-side and cross-border deal count, with advisory revenues up 28% over 2024 against $101 billion in announced advisory transactions (SEC FY2025 Annual Report). A summer-analyst seat here is therefore deeper in middle-market M&A — particularly healthcare/Med-Tech and financial-services banking — than in capital-markets origination, and the Minneapolis HQ plus CEP feeder pipeline mean the early-career centre of gravity sits outside the New York campus-recruiting axis.

Yes. Piper Sandler currently has 3 open internship and graduate roles on Jorb AI: summer internships, insight programs, graduate schemes, and early-career positions across the United States. Postings update continuously as new roles are added and filled.

Piper Sandler has open internship and graduate roles in 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 Piper Sandler go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. Piper Sandler does not use third-party submission services.