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# Software Engineer at PDT Partners

- **Company:** PDT Partners
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2022-02-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pdtpartners/jobs/3914106

## Job description

At PDT, technology is a core driver of our business. Engineers tackle complex technical and quantitative challenges that advance our research methodology and investment approach.

We hire exceptionally talented engineers and give them room to grow in a dynamic, supportive environment. The people who thrive here value breadth, continuous learning, and long-term investment in their craft. They  find energy in growth that comes from rotating through different teams across the organization. This kind of mobility is central to how we work, allowing engineers to build deep, varied skills and make meaningful impact over time.

Our hiring reflects this collaborative culture. We assess every candidate against one talent bar firmwide, then match engineers to the teams that best set them up for success.

As a Software Engineer at PDT, you'll build and maintain the technology that powers our quantitative trading business from the data that drives our models to the systems that execute every trade, and everything in between.

This is a hybrid position and will require the person to work from our New York City office at minimum 3 days a week

To learn more about the teams hiring, please see a brief description below. We encourage you to apply to learn more about the different opportunities at PDT.

Application Platform

- Builds and maintains the common infrastructure, including distributed locking, centralized logging, metrics, and container orchestration, to drive automation, reliability, and performance at scale.

Cloud Infrastructure

- Engineers, architects, and operates PDT’s cloud and research environments, ensuring reliable and scalable infrastructure across the firm.

Data

- Onboards and manages all external datasets consumed across PDT, building and maintaining the infrastructure to reliably download, parse, and validate data at scale.
- Develops firm-wide frameworks and serve as a technical resource for researchers.

Post Trade

- Engineers and maintains the systems that track trades, positions, and PnL, and reconcile the firm's view against brokers and fund administrators at scale.
- Builds and evolves the reporting infrastructure and internal tooling that accounting, compliance and operational teams depend on.

Software Infrastructure

- Owns and evolves PDT's core software stack, including packaging, builds, versioning, and CI/CD, while continuously identifying and closing gaps across the developer ecosystem.

Trading Control

- Engineers the real-time and historical systems that monitor trading activity, including PnL, alerting, and risk, and builds the tools that enable teams to diagnose issues fast and intervene with confidence.

Trading Infrastructure

- Develops and operates the real-time market data and trading platforms that connect PDT to brokers and venues globally, including  order management, exchange connectivity, and execution infrastructure.

Why join us?

PDT Partners has a stellar 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.  PDT’s very high employee-retention rate speaks for itself.  Our people are intellectually extraordinary, and our community is close-knit, down-to-earth, and diverse.

We want engineers who thrive where creativity and energy drive the solutions. At PDT, you’ll tackle hard problems collaboratively, with the focus, agility, and independence to assess a challenge and act. Your work directly shapes our success. For the right talent, the growth potential is enormous.

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.

- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an Engineering or Applied Sciences field from a rigorous academic program or equivalent professional experience
- Experience designing scalable and highly reliable software systems
- Significant experience programming in an object-oriented programming language
- Experience in and enthusiasm for scoping requirements and collaborating with colleague-clients
- Knowledge of, or interest in, trading and finance is beneficial, but not required.

The salary range for this role is $180,000 to $250,000 and does not include potential bonus. Where a candidate falls within the range depends on factors such as years of experience, level of education, skill set, and other considerations.

PRIVACY STATEMENT: For information on ways PDT may collect, use, and process your personal information, please see [PDT’s privacy notices](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/web.archive.org/web/20250427031403/https:/*pdtpartners.com/legal-notices__;Lw!!BRl1MEkZV0wYbGA!W9KPLHaVyTqn0i4EtKUxBonWhDRKHcXIATZOar_-0VBw3NhD9N763vWLMuUPW_UxvkMTrACkkNz9mSFNDDBk4qBB$).

## About PDT Partners

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: PDT Partners is a quantitative asset management firm that uses a rigorous scientific, systematic, and model-driven approach to identify and exploit inefficiencies in global financial markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (spun out of Morgan Stanley in 2013)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (with an office in London, UK)
- **Founded**: 1993 (as a proprietary trading group within Morgan Stanley; became independent in 2013)
- **Founders**: Peter Muller (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Investment Management / Quantitative Finance
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (the firm manages assets for external clients, but the business operates as an investment manager)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: While the firm does not publish a single corporate mission statement, its culture page emphasizes “alleviating poverty through education and workforce development” via the PDT Give philanthropy program, and on the careers page it states: “We are a talent-driven organization… raw ability and judgment matter more to us than skills and experience.”

## Products & Services
PDT Partners is a single-product firm at its core — a quantitative investment management platform — but internally it operates through several teams that develop and execute strategies:
- **Quantitative Investment Strategies**: Systematic, model-driven trading across multiple asset classes, built on proprietary research and data science.
- **Technology & Infrastructure**: Cloud engineering, platform engineering, trading infrastructure, and post-trade software that support the firm’s research and execution.
- **Business Operations**: Fund accounting, investor relations, tax, and recruiting functions that enable the firm to run smoothly.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private firm)
- **Key Metric**: Multiple billions of dollars in assets under management (AUM) — exact figure not publicly available
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Spun out of Morgan Stanley after a 19-year track record inside the bank; no external lead investors listed. The firm is owned by its partners.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: ~177 employees (+6% YoY, +14 people) as of mid-2026; the firm describes itself as “around 200 scientists, engineers, and professionals.”
  - High employee retention is a stated strength; the LinkedIn ratings show a 4.4 overall (4.7 culture, 4.4 compensation, 4.5 work-life balance).
  - Active hiring across Technology, Research, and Business Operations roles (14 open positions as of early July 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Talent density**: The firm explicitly hires for raw ability and judgment over specific credentials, leading to a highly selective, intellectually rigorous team.
- **Long track record**: Founded in 1993 (32+ years) and spun out with a documented 19-year track record – rare in quantitative finance.
- **Aligned incentives**: Compensation is tied to the firm’s long-term investment performance through deferred compensation, encouraging a multi-year perspective.
- **Collaborative culture**: Described as “collaborative” and “kind” by employees, with a growth mindset that encourages learning from mistakes and open feedback.
- **High retention**: The firm prides itself on keeping talent, which preserves institutional knowledge and reinforces culture.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued investment in quantitative research**: Hiring Applied ML Scientists, Quantitative Researchers, and Research Engineers suggests a focus on pushing the frontier of alpha generation.
- **Scalable infrastructure**: Cloud and platform engineering roles indicate a move toward modern, cloud-native trading infrastructure.
- **Global presence**: Maintaining offices in New York and London to access talent and markets on both sides of the Atlantic.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 4.7 on LinkedIn; described as “collaborative,” “intellectually free,” and with a “growth mindset.” Employees cite kindness and mutual respect.
- **Compensation**: “No fixed or pre-determined upper bounds” – generous, long-term deferred compensation tied to firm performance; LinkedIn confirms a 4.4 compensation rating.
- **Benefits**: Full medical/dental/vision, 401k matching, unlimited sick leave, subsidized fitness, emergency back-up child/elder care, annual conference/seminar attendance, tuition reimbursement, charitable match, and an active philanthropy program (PDT Give).
- **Work environment**: Casual, flexible, stocked pantries, company meals, outings, and ping-pong/poker/trivia. Internally, employees host book clubs, speaker series, and training.
- **Work Model**: Not explicitly hybrid or remote; the careers page emphasizes “our work environment is comfortable, casual, and flexible,” but given the roles (trading infrastructure, research), on-site presence in New York or London is likely expected.
- **Learning**: Internal training, external speakers, annual conferences, tuition reimbursement, and a strong feedback culture.

## Sources
1. [pdtpartners.com](https://pdtpartners.com/)
2. [pdtpartners.com/careers](https://pdtpartners.com/careers)
3. [pdtpartners.com/culture](https://pdtpartners.com/culture)
4. [linkedin.com/company/pdt-partners-llc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pdt-partners-llc)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/pdtpartners](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pdtpartners)

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