PDT Partners is seeking talented engineering students for Software Engineering focused internships to add to a company that values creativity, energy, and collaborative problem solving. The goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Fast-learner, intellectually curious, problem-solving approach
- 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
Responsibilities
- design, develop, debug, and test our software components for large handling of financial data, real-time events, and batch processing.
- Face problems that don't have well-defined solutions - creativity is essential to come up with the best possible answers, including ones that explore new technologies
- 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
- Learn to correctly apply new idioms, techniques, and algorithms in the following areas: Program correctness - resource management, exception safety, reentrancy/thread safety
- Learn to correctly apply new idioms, techniques, and algorithms in the following areas: Maintainability - portability, good coding practices, adherence to coding standards, unit testing, documentation
Other
- 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 2027 or 2028.
- Excellent academic background from a rigorous computer science or engineering program graduating in Fall 2026 or later
- Proactive with sense of urgency
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Interest in working in a world-class, professional environment
