Women's Engineering Academy

Our Engineering organisation builds solutions to some of the most complex problems in the industry. Our commitment to best-in-class technology provides Goldman Sachs with a competitive edge. 

 

The Goldman Sachs Engineering Academy, provides women students in their penultimate year of studies the opportunity to learn more about Engineering in Finance over two training days. This will be open to all degree backgrounds and is designed to introduce students to the financial world through hands on experience.
This event will provide you with a unique combination of experiential learning, upskilling opportunities, and career readiness. You will have the opportunity to meet our engineering teams that build scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.

 

As a participant, you will:

• Discover the diverse roles within Engineering, across Quantitative Strategists, Cyber Security, Software Engineering and Systems Engineering.
• Gain insights from engineers across the firm to navigate the complexities of the financial markets and state-of-the-art methods in quantitative finance
• Acquire tangible resume-enhancing tips and interview skills through interactive workshops.
• Learn about the overall recruiting process within engineering including the technical HackerRank assessment.
• Network with Goldman Sachs Engineers and hear more about their day-to-day responsibilities, experiences and diverse backgrounds.
• Meet members from some of our inclusion networks such as the Women’s Network and Black Engineers Network.

Following your application, you can expect to hear back from us by end of June. The Academy will take place over 3-days in September/October.

 

How to Apply

Visit gs.com/careers and apply to: "Other Internships & Work Placements” Recruiting Year: 2024 > Program: Seasonal / Off-Cycle Internship > Location: London > Business: Exploratory Program > Sub-business: Engineering

 

About Goldman Sachs Engineering

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Build innovations that drive our business and financial markets worldwide. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients.

 

Examples of the types of work Engineers do at Goldman Sachs include Quantitative Strategists, Cyber Security, Software Engineering and Systems Engineering.

• Quantitative Strategists - Our quantitative strategists are at the cutting edge of our business, solving real-world problems through a variety of analytical methods. Working in close collaboration with bankers, traders and portfolio managers across the firm, their invaluable quantitative perspectives on complex financial and technical challenges power our business decisions
• Cyber Security - At Goldman Sachs, our cyber security analysts are on the front lines of this modern battle. In this role you will protect our clients and the integrity of our firm in both an advisory and engineering capacity.
• Software Engineering - Combine the best open source software, databases, cloud solutions, and programming languages, to solve problems and provide accurate, complex, scalable applications that help our business and clients gain new insights. As a software engineer, you are the change agents that transform Goldman Sachs by applying your technical know-how.
• Systems Engineering - Systems engineers work in the wide core of systems necessary to support and maintain business operations throughout the firm. As a systems engineer, you have the immediate opportunity to design, develop, implement and own a variety of systems which ensure uninterrupted operation of all our lines of business.