Rust Developer Intern (Spring 2026)
Blockhouse•New York City, NY
•Hybrid
About The Position
Blockhouse is seeking a Rust Developer Intern to work on their core market-making engine, which is written in Rust and operates across multiple venues. The role involves extending the engine by adding new exchanges, optimizing execution, and developing the surrounding operational layer, including a trader dashboard and GCP infrastructure. Interns will work directly with founders, the Head of Trading, and senior quants in a small, engineering-driven environment.
Requirements
- Solid Rust experience - you've built something non-trivial, not just followed a tutorial
- Comfortable in Linux/UNIX environments
- Strong grasp of concurrency, async, and performance tradeoffs
- Clean, well-tested code, fluent with standard debugging workflows
Nice To Haves
- Crypto exchange API experience (CEX or DEX integrations)
- Frontend/backend work (TypeScript, React, or similar)
- GCP or other cloud infrastructure exposure
- Experience with market data, order books, or execution systems
- Python for tooling, testing, or research integration
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, latency sensitivity)
Responsibilities
- Optimize and extend the existing Rust market-making engine
- Integrate new CEX and DEX venues: REST, WebSocket, order lifecycle, market data normalization
- Build and improve the internal trader dashboard (frontend + backend integrations)
- Hook services into our GCP infrastructure: deployment, observability, data pipelines
- Debug live systems against real trading logs and production behavior
- Collaborate with quants to translate strategy logic into production code
Benefits
- Benefits included
- Equity and strategy PnL share available on conversion to full-time
- CPT/OPT supported; flexible arrangements available
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