Summer 2027 Legal Intern

The Role

• We are looking for an intern to join our Legal team for Summer 2027. This role sits where legal practice meets technology: your main project will be using AI tools to change how the team captures, organizes, and applies its knowledge.
• At the center of the internship, you will build and maintain a dashboard to memorialize and categorize, as well as produce and query, investor documentation. The dashboard will give the firm a single, clear view of investor commitments currently spread across various documents.
• You will also use AI to streamline other legal functions, including building playbooks that capture the team's negotiating positions and systems to preserve institutional knowledge.
• By the end of the summer, you will have delivered a lasting, practical tool and will understand how in-house legal work supports a leading investment platform.

What You'll Do

• You will work across functions with colleagues outside the legal department to design and build the investor documentation dashboard, turning legal concepts into a tool that is structured, easy to use, and valuable to the whole business.
• You will also develop and refine legal playbooks and knowledge management tools on your own, taking ownership, using good judgment, and bringing a clear point of view on how the team's knowledge can be organized and shared.
• Throughout the summer, you will apply AI technologies to automate, organize, and improve legal workflows, replacing manual processes and freeing the Legal team for higher-value work.
• You will also have the opportunity to take part in one-day rotations through different sub-teams within Legal, seeing the full range of the team's work across funds, corporate, trading documents, and portfolio management.

What You'll Bring

• You are currently pursuing a Bachelor's Law degree with 1-2 years left in your program.
• You are highly skilled with AI tools and have shown that you can apply them creatively to complex, open-ended problems.
• You solve problems well and work comfortably both in collaborative settings and on your own, whether aligning stakeholders across teams or driving a project forward independently.
• You are deadline driven and can complete the dashboard, playbooks, and any other assigned work by the end of the summer.
• You are excited to spend a summer working where legal expertise, technology, and investment strategy come together.

Our Internship

Kick-start your career in finance with the Schonfeld Summer Internship. Over 10 action-packed weeks, you will build solutions that tackle real-world challenges and leave a lasting impact on the firm. You will join a close-knit team that is ready to support your growth, with a dedicated manager and a mentor to guide your development over the internship and beyond.

Throughout the program, you will connect with senior leaders through a series of learning sessions, attend hands-on skills workshops, network at social events, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how various functions power the firm. You will be empowered to bring your ideas to life and make an impact.

Who We Are

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that aims to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for investors. It draws on internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. It draws on decades of experience and significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.

Our Culture

At Schonfeld, the firm invests in its people, because exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people. Talent is encouraged to keep learning, innovate and pursue ambitious goals. The firm is teamwork-oriented and collaborative, and encourages ideas at all levels to be shared. It provides learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact, and encourages community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm's walls.

The annual base pay for this role is expected to be between $85,000 and $95,000, prorated based on internship start and end dates. The expected range is based on information available when this post was generated. Actual compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and level of education.