Quantitative Developer Intern - Summer 2026

This Role

The Quantitative Developer Intern will work on a C++/Python trading platform for event-contract markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain market-making strategies for binary/event contracts.
• Work on the C++20 OMS, order gateway, and WebSocket/FIX trading infrastructure.
• Integrate new pricing and theo models.
• Improve latency, throughput, and reliability across order placement, order state tracking, reconciliation, and IPC/data feeds.
• Support venue integrations for Kalshi, Polymarket, and future exchanges.
• Build and maintain Python tooling for supervisors, dashboards, monitoring, rotations, and analysis.
• Add tests, benchmarks, and diagnostics for trading logic and infrastructure changes.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and researchers to bring new strategies from idea to production.

Requirements

• Strong C++ experience, ideally C++17/20.
• Python proficiency for research, automation, and operational tooling.
• Experience with trading systems, market making, exchange connectivity, or low-latency infrastructure.
• Understanding of order books, limit orders, fills, position/risk management, and exchange APIs.
• Comfort with concurrency, networking, WebSockets, REST, and preferably FIX.
• Ability to debug production systems and reason carefully about correctness, latency, and risk.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with C++17/20 and Python.
• Knowledge of trading systems, market making, exchange connectivity, or low-latency infrastructure.
• Experience with order books, limit orders, fills, position/risk management, and exchange APIs.
• Experience with concurrency, networking, WebSockets, REST, and preferably FIX.
• Experience with debugging production systems and reasoning about correctness, latency, and risk.

Skills

• C++20
• Python
• CMake
• Boost/Beast/Asio
• FIX
• WebSockets
• REST
• ONNX Runtime
• GTest
• Google Benchmark
• ZMQ
• shared-memory IPC
• Rust FFI
• Linux

Benefits

Annual base salary of $114,400-$156,000 (USD), prorated based on internship start and end date, with potential for discretionary bonuses.

Pay

Annual base salary of $114,400-$156,000 (USD), prorated based on internship start and end date.

Schedule

Full-time, onsite in New York City.