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 2028 or 2029.
Program Length: 10 Weeks (Early June – Mid August)
Application Process: Please apply directly through this posting. Applications are reviewed and candidates will progress 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 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. Our people come from diverse disciplines, are intellectually extraordinary and our community is close-knit, down-to-earth and collaborative.
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 will be 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
The internship offers opportunities to correctly apply new idioms, techniques, and algorithms in select areas, which may include:
- 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 2027 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.
Skills Required
- Current Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD student in a rigorous technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering)
- Eligible for full-time roles starting in 2028 or 2029
- Excellent academic background from a rigorous computer science or engineering program, graduating Fall 2027 or later
- Strong programming skills with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Ability to learn quickly, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving approach
- Proactive attitude with a sense of urgency
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Interest in working in a professional, world-class environment
- Commitment to improvement and openness to constructive feedback
PDT Partners Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about PDT Partners and has not been reviewed or approved by PDT Partners.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Compensation is framed as long-term and aligned with firm and individual performance, with upside potential through performance-linked and deferred components. This alignment can meaningfully increase total rewards in strong periods.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance and is described as comprehensive, materially boosting total rewards. Wellness supports further complement the core coverage.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with employer matching and pre-tax savings programs strengthens long-term financial benefits beyond salary and bonus. Charitable-gift matching adds additional financial-oriented support.
PDT Partners Insights
What We Do
PDT, which stands for Process Driven Trading, was founded by Peter Muller in 1993 as a proprietary trading group within Morgan Stanley. In 2013, after establishing a 19-year track record finding inefficiencies in financial markets, the group spun out of Morgan Stanley to become an independent investment management firm, PDT Partners. Today we are a leader in the field of quantitative finance, known for our rigorous scientific, systematic, and model-driven approach to investing, with multiple billions in assets under management. Peter Muller, Founder and CEO, and a small group of managing partners lead around 250 scientists, engineers, and professionals in New York and London.
