Automation Engineering Intern 2026

Marketaxess Global Intern Program

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help take us there.

The Role

In this position, you will be part of a 9-week Global Intern program, where you will work with other developers, architects, test engineers and product management in the development of fixed income data products. You will join an Agile Scrum team focused on building and enhancing products while improving our testing frameworks, automation coverage, and QA processes.

How You’ll Help Take Us There

• Understand business requirements
• Design test plans, test cases, and testing strategies for new and existing features
• Develop, enhance, and maintain automated test scripts
• Execute manual and automated tests as needed
• Participate in code reviews for automation and provide feedback
• Collaborate closely with developers and QA to triage defects and ensure high-quality releases
• Contribute to improving test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and QA standards
• Provide clear and detailed feedback on test results, defects, and potential risks
• Participate in software design
• Provide time estimates

What We’re Looking For

• Currently enrolled in a full-time bachelor’s or master’s degree program in mathematics, engineering, computer science, or similar from an accredited college or university. This internship is intended for students with 1-2 semesters to complete until their degree is conferred.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States permanently without employment visa sponsorship required now or in the future
• Familiarity or interest in test automation tools and frameworks
• Understanding of various data structures and algorithms
• Exposure to JAVA programming language
• Basic knowledge of enterprise RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server)
• Experience with one of the following Enterprise Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
• Experience in development/willingness to learn Java based server-side framework (Spring Boot)
• Understanding of browser-based technologies/willingness to learn (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React, AngularJS, AJAX)
• Curiosity/interest related to cloud technologies and cloud design patterns (AWS)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational and problem resolution skills
• Team player and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to function well in a competitive, challenging environment, and the ability to deal with changing priorities

MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic in the location in which the candidate is applying. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.