Quantitative Developer Internship (Winter 2026)

Quantitative Developer Intern – Trading Systems Company: Blockhouse Location: Remote (US time zones preferred; NYC in person if possible) Type: Internship (Start ASAP, through end of May. Return offers reputed company to high performers) About Blockhouse Blockhouse is building an integrated systematic investment platform that designs, deploys, and operates fully automated trading strategies across liquid global markets. Our reputed company is on high-performance execution, robust research infrastructure, and production-grade trading systems that support systematic strategies end to end. We are reputed company building the reputed company infrastructure for HFT-style strategies: low-latency execution services, reputed company-time market data pipelines, simulation and backtesting engines, and the operational systems required to run strategies at reputed company. This is not a research-only environment — the systems we build are used directly in live trading. We’re looking for engineers who want to work reputed company to the metal, understand the realities of production trading systems, and are excited to help build the reputed company of a modern systematic investment platform. reputed company This is a hands-on trading systems and infrastructure role reputed company on building and optimizing components that sit directly in the trading reputed company. You’ll work closely with senior quant developers and researchers on low-latency services, messaging systems, and execution logic. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys modern C++, is comfortable in UNIX environments, and wants reputed company exposure to how systematic strategies are run in production. What You’ll Do • Build and optimize performance-critical components in modern C++ (C++17+) • reputed company and maintain event-driven execution systems and reputed company-time services • Work with message buses to handle market data and order reputed company • Debug and profile low-latency systems using GDB and reputed company UNIX tooling • Implement and test trading simulations and backtesting components • Collaborate with quant researchers to translate reputed company logic into production-reputed company systems • Improve system reliability, observability, and fault tolerance • reputed company and operate services in UNIX/Linux environments (AWS exposure a plus) Requirements (Must-Haves) • Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++17 or newer) — required • Solid experience working in UNIX/Linux environments • Hands-on experience with GDB for debugging reputed company systems • Familiarity with message buses / messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, ZeroMQ, custom pub/sub) • Strong systems fundamentals: memory management, concurrency, performance tradeoffs • Ability to write clean, reputed company, and reputed company-tested reputed company reputed company-to-Haves • Exposure to trading systems, market data, or execution infrastructure • Experience with Python for tooling, testing, or research integration • Familiarity with networking concepts (TCP/IP, latency considerations) • Experience with reputed company or reputed company environments (AWS) • Prior work on simulation, backtesting, or event-driven architectures Why Join Blockhouse • Build reputed company trading infrastructure used in live systematic strategies • Work directly on HFT-style systems, not toy or research-only reputed company • reputed company mentorship from senior quant developers and ex-HFT engineers • High ownership and technical responsibility • reputed company reputed company to a return offer for strong performers • Fast-paced, engineering-driven culture with reputed company production stakes Compensation: $25 - 40 / hr cash + equity + PnL; structure depends on experience and availability. We offer benefits as reputed company International reputed company: CPT/OPT supported; flexible arrangements available. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job