Summer 2027 Systems Engineering Intern

The role

Systems engineering interns work on technically challenging projects to help research, implementation, and software engineering teams take ideas from inception to production. Interns work closely with senior engineers on individual projects and learn about infrastructure for a quantitative trading business.

What you will do

• Research, implementation, and software engineering support
• Face problems that don't have well-defined solutions
• 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

Required qualifications

• Current Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD students pursuing degrees in rigorous, highly technical fields (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering)
• 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

Nice to have

• Using software and automation to solve problems
• Distributed computing, including hybrid cloud architectures
• Operating Systems, including low-level performance tuning and analysis
• Global hybrid networking, including automated configuration and packet analysis
• Petascale storage systems

Benefits

• Hands-on personalized mentorship
• Intern-specific and company-wide social events

Before you apply

• Candidates will progress to the first-round technical assessment on a rolling basis

About the company

PDT Partners is a quantitative investment manager. Their goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world.