MMHF Central Execution Trajectory/Advice

There have been a few discussions on this website (and online) about what central books do for MMHF. Considering an upcoming internship in a Central Execution team at one of the big MMHF (cit/p72/mlp/bam) as a quant researcher, and wanted to know what the future prospects are for the role. My long term goals is quant researcher at hedge fund/trading firm (my background is stats/ml).

At a high level the concepts of market microstructure, risk, optimization, tca, etc are all very interesting to me, and I'm super excited to learn more. However, the setup seems different than the traditional alpha research role in quant. How are execution quant researchers seen in industry -> is it easy to pivot to centralized hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, etc? Another thought I have is that given the more volatile state of pods these days (see the events of the past week), are these execution/trading teams more important/valued than ever?

Any discussion/advice would be very appreciated :)

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