Summer 2027 Systems Engineering Intern

PDT Partners is a quantitative investment manager seeking talented students for internships focused on Infrastructure Engineering. Interns will work on technically challenging projects alongside senior engineers, gaining hands-on experience and contributing to the company's culture.

What you'll do:

• Work closely with expert engineers on technically challenging projects
• Help research, implementation, and software engineering teams take their ideas from inception to production
• Face problems that don't have well-defined solutions and come up with the best possible answers
• Learn about the infrastructure needed to support a quantitative trading business
• Gain experience with multicast market data distribution
• Analyze the latency impact of network buffering
• Automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure, including compute, services, and storage
• Develop GitOps-driven configuration management for consistent global deployments at scale
• Add core components to our cloud-based Kubernetes infrastructure

What they're looking for:

• 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
• Excellent academic background from a rigorous computer science or engineering program graduating in Fall 2027 or later
• 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