Summer 2027 Systems Engineering Intern
About The Position
PDT Partners, a quantitative investment manager, is seeking talented students for internships focused on Infrastructure Engineering (Systems, Network, DevOps, Cloud, etc.). 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 engineers on individual projects, receive hands-on personalized mentorship, and contribute to PDT's culture through both intern-specific and company-wide social events. Members of our platform engineering teams are responsible for the design, implementation, and operational support of scalable and performant systems that are critical to our success. As a systems engineering intern, you will work closely with expert engineers on technically challenging projects to help research, implementation, and software engineering teams take their ideas from inception to production.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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 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
Benefits
- The salary for this role is $180,000. This amount is not inclusive of any potential bonus amounts.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
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