About the role#
This is a 10-week summer internship program based in our New York City office. You will work on a single project with an assigned mentor, culminating in a final presentation. Interns are hired into a general software engineering role and matched to a specific team a few months before the start date. You will have access to company events, guest speaker series, and intern-specific social activities.
What you'll do#
- Build underlying infrastructure used by engineering teams, including distributed storage and cloud environments.
- Ensure the reliability of mission-critical products and systems, such as our main trading system.
- Use open-source and proprietary tools to build environments for testing and deploying quantitative strategies.
- Build and maintain low-latency, high-performance infrastructure for executing trades.
- Scale infrastructure to ingest data from over 10,000 sources daily.
- Partner with corporate teams to develop tools and systems that increase organizational productivity.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
- Experience with Java, C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, or other languages that target the JVM.
- Experience working with large-scale systems.
- Strong programming, analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- A focus on building quality software.
Location & details#
- Location: New York, NY.
- Work Modality: Hybrid.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Status: Full-time internship.
- Compensation: Weekly base pay is $3,800 for Bachelor’s students, $3,900 for Master’s students, and $4,200 for PhD students.
About Two Sigma
Two Sigma is a quantitative investment management firm. It uses data science, artificial intelligence, and software development to manage assets. The company operates globally with its headquarters in New York. It employs over 2,400 people.
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