🎯About the role

This 6-month internship offers a unique opportunity to apply your Python and AI skills in a fast-paced trading environment. Working closely with our traders, you’ll develop practical solutions that automate tasks, structure data, and improve trading workflows.

👋Who are we?

CORUM Butler is an independent asset management company specializing in fixed income and real estate investments, with more than €10 billion in assets under management. Its fixed income division, Butler Investment Managers, has been managing European high-yield and long/short credit strategies since 2008, building a strong track record across multiple market cycles.

Combining entrepreneurial agility with institutional expertise, CORUM Butler offers investors innovative investment solutions focused on delivering long-term value. Based in London, you will work alongside the trading team and interact regularly with portfolio managers in both London and Paris. This unique position offers broad exposure to financial markets, portfolio management, and trading operations within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

💼 Your missions 

We are looking for an English-speaking AI developer intern to help our traders improve trading efficiency and reduce manual tasks. In this role, you will gain exposure to bond and derivatives markets, learning how trading operations function on a day-to-day basis.

Working closely with the Head of Trading, you will design and develop practical tools using a broad range of technologies, including Python, AI, and LLMs. You will be involved in meaningful projects throughout their entire lifecycle, supported by the trading team and a dedicated mentor.

The role offers immediate visibility on the value of your work, with your tools and enhancements directly contributing to the team's effectiveness.

MISSIONS :

• Understand the team's daily trading workflow and spot tasks that could be automated

• Build tools that read emails and documents (trade ideas, dealer prices, new bond issues) and turn them into clean, structured data

• Automate routine checks and daily reports

• Create simple dashboards to follow trades, positions, and performance

• Test and document your tools, following the group's IT security and compliance rules

• Present your work to the trading and portfolio management teams
  

👤Qualifications and experience

Required

• Student in a master’s or final-year program in computer science, engineering, data science or quantitative finance

• Good Python skills (including pandas) and basic SQL

• First experience building with large language models (for example the OpenAI or Anthropic APIs), through your studies or personal projects

• Interest in financial markets

• Fluent English

• Curious, rigorous and able to explain technical work simply

A plus

• Basic knowledge of bonds or derivatives

• Excel/VBA, Power BI or Bloomberg

Please note: Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the internship, as visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

What we offer?

• 🌍Join an entrepreneurial adventure in an international environment

• 💡Work on diverse projects that will stimulate your creativity

• 💻Enjoy the flexibility of remote work up to 2 days a week

• 🎯Benefit from professional development opportunities