Job in Quantitative Trading as a ME major

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<p>I am doing my Masters in mechanical engineering at Stanford and I'm interested in getting a job as a quantitative trader. I know these finance companies look mostly for CS majors and MATH majors but they hire engineering majors as well (and probably electrical engineers the most). So I was wondering how to make myself most presentable for these jobs. </p>

<p>I majored in ME in my undergrad and minored in CS so I have a sound background in CS. I also had an internship where I had to develop an artificial intelligent algorithm that solves for the optimal operations for a company. For my masters, I specialize in CFD, so I have experience in writing computational codes. I also took two more CS classes that should help - machine learning and data mining.</p>

<p>So my question is - will I be considered for jobs as a quantitative analyst/trader or are my chances slim? If I point out all the projects I have been a part of through my classes/research/internship in my resume, will I be fine?</p>

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<p>I would ask in the business / IBanking forum. </p>

<p>Although you have a masters, I know quants like having a Masters in Financial Engineering.
Berkeley has a top program. I was looking to get in the field, so I know a lil bit.
[Master</a> of Financial Engineering Program - Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley](<a href=“Master of Financial Engineering Program | Berkeley Haas”>Master of Financial Engineering Program | Berkeley Haas)</p>

<p>All the information you need is here:<a href=“https://www.quantnet.com/forum/[/url]”>https://www.quantnet.com/forum/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>A forum for quants and everything related to MFE. Good luck</p>