Summer 2027 Software Engineering Intern
PDT Partners3 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, debug, and test software components supporting financial data, real-time events, and batch processing.
- Work closely with senior developers on individual technically challenging projects.
- Develop infrastructure-management tooling and contribute to infrastructure supporting large-scale datasets.
- Apply techniques related to program correctness, resource management, exception safety, thread safety, maintainability, unit testing, documentation, efficient algorithms, and parallelization.
- Learn about financial markets, quantitative trading, and trading technologies.
Requirements
- Current Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD student in a rigorous, highly technical field such as Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
- Eligible for full-time roles starting in 2028 or 2029.
- 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.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, problem-solving ability, proactive behavior, and willingness to apply constructive feedback.
Benefits
- 10-week internship running from early June through mid-August 2027
- Hands-on personalized mentorship from senior developers
- Intern and company-wide social events
About PDT Partners
PDT Partners is a quantitative investment management firm that builds systematic, model-driven trading strategies for institutional investors across global public markets. Founded in 1993 by Peter Muller within Morgan Stanley and spun out as an independent firm in 2013, it is headquartered in New York with a London office. The firm manages multiple billions in assets under management and is privately held.