Summer 2027 Software Engineering Intern

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From $180,000

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New York, NY

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Job description

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.  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.