D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.

About D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.

D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. is an American multinational investment-management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm and its affiliates manage assets for institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, and high-net-worth individuals across systematic, discretionary, and hybrid strategies in equities, fixed income, commodities, credit, private equity, and real estate. The firm was founded in 1988 by David E. Shaw, a former Columbia University computer-science professor. From its earliest years it was a pioneer in the use of advanced mathematics, statistics, and large-scale computing for quantitative investing, and it has remained a research-driven organisation with significant in-house engineering and scientific capabilities. The D. E. Shaw group's affiliates include D. E. Shaw Investment Management, D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments, and the basic-research lab D. E. Shaw Research, which builds custom hardware and software for molecular dynamics simulation. D. E. Shaw operates from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. The firm has a long-established presence in India through D. E. Shaw India, which was set up in 1996 in Hyderabad and has subsequently grown to substantial centres in Hyderabad, Gurugram, and Bengaluru. The Indian centres support quantitative research, software engineering, financial engineering, fund operations, technology operations, and corporate functions for the global firm. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at D. E. Shaw is concentrated in software-engineering, quantitative-analyst, financial-engineering, and operations roles. Recruiting takes place primarily through campus engagements at IITs, IISc, NITs, IIITs, BITS, and select management institutes, and through applications routed through deshawindia.com/careers.

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