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Applications are reviewed and candidates will progress on a rolling basis. You can anticipate receiving feedback on your application within 3 weeks. \nPDT 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.\nThroughout 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.\nWhy join us?\nPDT 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.\nInternship Projects\nSoftware 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.\nDepending on the specific project, you may:\nFace 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\nLearn about financial markets and quantitative trading\nBuild an understanding of various trading technologies and make contributions to them\nDevelop tooling used for infrastructure management\nContribute to the infrastructure and maintenance of large-scale data sets \n The internship offers opportunities to correctly apply new idioms, techniques, and algorithms in select areas, which may include:\nProgram correctness - resource management, exception safety, reentrancy/thread safety\nMaintainability - portability, good coding practices, adherence to coding standards, unit testing, documentation \nEfficiency - optimal data structures/algorithms, understanding of high-/low- level implications and trade-offs in design choices, parallelization\nBelow 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. \nExcellent academic background from a rigorous computer science or engineering program graduating in Fall 2027 or later \nStrong programming skills with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms\nFast-learner, intellectually curious, problem-solving approach \nProactive with sense of urgency \nStrong verbal and written communication skills \nInterest in working in a world-class, professional environment \nCommitted to improvement and keen to apply constructive feedback \nThe salary for this role is $180,000. 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