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Quantitative Software Developer Intern

An internship helping develop, optimise and monitor Point72's production trading platform and research infrastructure. Interns are placed in small collaborative teams.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Help build and optimise parts of the trading platform
Monitor production systems and investigate faults
Contribute to research infrastructure tooling
Work at the systems level on Linux

What they ask for

Required

Undergraduate or graduate in computer science or engineering
Significant Python, C++, C or Java
Interest in systems programming
Understanding of how Linux programs interact with the kernel

Preferred

Git
Databases such as MySQL
Web frameworks

Education: Undergraduate or graduate candidates in computer science or engineering.
Experience: Students; no professional experience stated.
Languages and tools: Python
C++
C
Java

How to prepare

Write small systems programs in C or C++ on Linux and profile them
Learn syscalls, processes, memory and networking basics
Study how a trading platform is structured
Get comfortable with Git and a database like MySQL

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Point72 and doesn’t handle applications.