Summer 2027 Software Engineering Intern

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). Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with feedback provided within 3 weeks.

About the role

PDT Partners – a quantitative investment manager – is seeking talented engineering students for Software Engineering focused internships. We value creativity, energy, and collaborative problem solving. Interns work closely with supportive senior developers on individual projects, receive hands-on personalized mentorship, and contribute to PDT's culture through intern and company-wide social events.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with expert developers on technically challenging projects to design, develop, debug, and test software components for large-scale handling of financial data, real-time events, and batch processing.
• Tackle problems that may not have well-defined solutions, requiring creativity to 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.

Projects 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.

Requirements

• 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, 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.

Pay

The salary for this role is $180,000. This amount is not inclusive of any potential bonus amounts.