Summer 2027 Software Engineering Intern

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. PRIVACY STATEMENT: For information on ways PDT may collect, use, and process your personal information, please see PDT's privacy notices. 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.