About the Role
PDT Partners is seeking talented engineering students for Software Engineering focused internships. Interns will work closely with supportive senior developers on individual projects, receive hands-on personalized mentorship, and contribute to PDT's culture through social events.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, debug, and test software components for handling financial data, real-time events, and batch processing.
- Address problems without well-defined solutions, requiring creativity and exploration of new technologies.
- Learn about financial markets and quantitative trading.
- Build an understanding of various trading technologies and contribute to them.
- Develop tooling for infrastructure management.
- Contribute to the infrastructure and maintenance of large-scale data sets.
- Apply new idioms, techniques, and algorithms in areas such as program correctness, maintainability, and efficiency.
Requirements
- Eligible for full-time roles starting in 2028 or 2029.
- Strong programming skills with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Fast-learner, intellectually curious, with a problem-solving approach.
- Proactive with a 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.
Skills
- Computer Science
- Computer Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Data Structures
- Algorithms
- Financial Markets
- Quantitative Trading
- Trading Technologies
- Infrastructure Management
- Large-scale Data Sets
- Program Correctness
- Maintainability
- Efficiency
- Resource Management
- Exception Safety
- Reentrancy/Thread Safety
- Portability
- Coding Practices
- Coding Standards
- Unit Testing
- Documentation
- Optimal Data Structures/Algorithms
- High-/Low-Level Implications
- Parallelization
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Internship
Experience Level
- Internship
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000
Benefits
- Hands-on personalized mentorship
- Social events
About the Company
- PDT Partners is a quantitative investment manager with a 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence.
- The company's goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world.
- PDT Partners values creativity, energy, and collaborative problem solving.
- The company fosters a close-knit, down-to-earth, and collaborative community with people from diverse disciplines who are intellectually extraordinary.
