Summer 2026 Software Engineering Internship

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 2027 or 2028.

Program Length: 10 Weeks (Early June - Mid August)

Application Process: Please apply directly through this posting. Applications are reviewed, and candidates will progress to the first-round technical assessment 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. We are looking for interns who can add to a company that values creativity, energy, and collaborative problem solving.

Throughout our 10-week program, students work closely with accessible, supportive senior developers on individual projects, receive hands-on personalized mentorship, and contribute to PDT's culture through both intern and company wide social events.

Why join us?

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. PDT's very high employee-retention rate speaks for itself. Our people are intellectually extraordinary and our community is close-knit, down-to-earth, and diverse.

Internship Projects

Software Engineers at PDT are responsible for building and maintaining the technology the enables all parts of the trading life cycle. As a software engineering intern, you will work closely with expert developers on technically challenging projects to design, develop, debug, and test our software components for large handling of financial data, real-time events, and batch processing.

Depending on the specific project, you may:

• 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
• 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

You will also learn to correctly apply new idioms, techniques, and algorithms in the following areas:

• 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

Below is a list of skills and experiences we think are relevant. Even if you don't think you're a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people.

• Excellent academic background from a rigorous computer science or engineering program graduating in Fall 2026 or later
• Strong programming skills with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Fast-learner, intellectually curious, problem-solving approach
• Proactive with 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

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

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NOTE: PDT does not currently offer a quantitative research internship program. However, we hire for full-time quantitative research roles on a rolling basis. Click here to learn more and apply.