Summer 2027 Software Engineering Intern
Eligibility: Current Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD students pursuing degrees in rigorous, highly technical fields (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering) who are eligible for full-time roles starting in 2028 or 2029.
Program Length: 10 Weeks (Early June - Mid August)
Application Process: Please apply directly through this posting. Applications are reviewed and candidates will progress on a rolling basis. You can anticipate receiving feedback on your application within 3 weeks.
PDT Partners - a quantitative investment manager - is seeking talented engineering students for Software Engineering focused internships. We are looking for interns who can add to a company that values creativity, energy, and collaborative problem solving.
Throughout our 10-week program, students work closely with supportive senior developers on individual projects, receive hands-on personalized mentorship, and contribute to PDT's culture through both intern and company wide social events.
Why join us?
PDT Partners has a 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence. Our goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world-measured by the quality of our products, not their size. Our people come from diverse disciplines, are intellectually extraordinary and our community is close-knit, down-to-earth and collaborative.
Internship Projects
Software Engineers at PDT are responsible for building and maintaining the technology the enables all parts of the trading life cycle. As a software engineering intern, you will work closely with expert developers on technically challenging projects to design, develop, debug, and test our software components for large handling of financial data, real-time events, and batch processing.
Depending on the specific project, you may:
- Face problems that don't have well-defined solutions - creativity will be essential to come up with the best possible answers, including ones that explore new technologies
- Learn about financial markets and quantitative trading
- Build an understanding of various trading technologies and make contributions to them
- Develop tooling used for infrastructure management
- Contribute to the infrastructure and maintenance of large-scale data sets
The internship offers opportunities to correctly apply new idioms, techniques, and algorithms in select areas, which may include:
- Program correctness - resource management, exception safety, reentrancy/thread safety
- Maintainability - portability, good coding practices, adherence to coding standards, unit testing, documentation
- Efficiency - optimal data structures/algorithms, understanding of high-/low- level implications and trade-offs in design choices, parallelization
Below is a list of skills and experiences we think are relevant. Even if you don’t think you’re a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people.
- Excellent academic background from a rigorous computer science or engineering program graduating in Fall 2027 or later
- Strong programming skills with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Fast-learner, intellectually curious, problem-solving approach
- Proactive with sense of urgency
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Interest in working in a world-class, professional environment
- Committed to improvement and keen to apply constructive feedback
The salary for this role is $180,000. This amount is not inclusive of any potential bonus amounts.
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NOTE: PDT does not currently offer a quantitative research internship program. However, we hire for full-time quantitative research roles on a rolling basis. Click here to learn more and apply.