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Look up qualifications and desired skills for some of the more renowned quant funds. As a value guy I do this regularly to know who's on the other side of my trade, off recall on a very basic level coding and statistical modeling are transferable skills for a quant fund. Projects that speak to your capabilities desired by the fund will be beneficial. If the offering affords you the ability to develop those skills then use it. Diverse backgrounds have appeal.
What kind of role? It's hard to see how it would help you develop skills that would be valued by a quant fund. There are lots of things you could do at a software firm that would lead back to finance but quant hedge funds seem like a pretty narrow target
Software development & analytics. So coding and statistical modelling, which are currently things I can do but need to get better at.
@CLS thanks, that helps