Summer 2027 Software Engineering Intern

PDT Partners · Technology

Where: New York, NY
Posted: Jul 24

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.

What you get

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
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
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