The D. E. Shaw group seeks motivated individuals with impressive records of academic and/or professional achievement to join the firm as systems engineering interns. Engineers at the firm are responsible for designing, developing, and managing the firm’s global technology infrastructure. The role offers the opportunity to be part of a collaborative and collegial work environment. This roughly 12-week program will take place in New York and is expected to run from June to August 2027.

Collaborate on a mix of software development and infrastructure work, such as building a wide range of technical solutions in areas including Linux and Windows management, database infrastructure, application engineering, DevOps, and information security.
Work may include developing full-stack web applications, building solutions to help find software vulnerabilities, administering various infrastructure-level systems, and/or developing efficiency improvements for all platforms.
Specific projects will be matched to your interests and experience; some examples include building automation for operating system upgrades, optimizing large-scale infrastructure operations, enhancing our security information and event management systems, and collaborating with teams across our Systems team to enhance and deploy a full-stack web app for firmwide use.

Systems Engineering Intern (New York) - Summer 2027