About the role#
The Summer 2027 Systems Engineering Internship is a 10-week program designed for students to work alongside senior engineers on individual projects. Interns will gain hands-on experience by tackling technically challenging problems that support a quantitative investment management business. You will participate in both intern-specific and company-wide social events throughout the summer.
What you'll do#
- Solve complex problems that do not have well-defined solutions.
- Gain experience with multicast market data distribution.
- Automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure, including compute, services, and storage.
- Develop GitOps-driven configuration management for global deployments.
- Add core components to cloud-based Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Analyze the latency impact of network buffering.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related rigorous technical field.
- Graduation date of Fall 2027 or later.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Intellectual curiosity, a problem-solving approach, and the ability to learn quickly.
- A proactive mindset with a sense of urgency.
- Interest in distributed computing, hybrid cloud architectures, low-level operating system performance tuning, and petascale storage systems.
Location & details#
- Location: New York, NY
- Term: Summer 2027 (10 weeks, early June to mid-August)
- Modality: On-site
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Compensation: $180,000
About PDT Partners
PDT Partners operates as an investment management firm focused on quantitative finance. The company uses systematic and model-driven methods to identify financial market inefficiencies. It began in 1993 as a trading group within Morgan Stanley before becoming independent in 2013. The firm employs approximately 248 people across offices in New York and London.
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