What sets PDT Partners apart
According to its own history page, PDT Partners began in 1993 as Morgan Stanley's Process Driven Trading group, spun out in 2013, and now has around 250 employees between its New York and London offices.
Its Quantitative Researcher posting is open to new or recent PhD graduates and states that "Finance knowledge is not required or expected"; the form asks for publications ranked by contribution, the paper that best shows the candidate's research style, and short descriptions of projects in data analysis, coding and modeling. A PhD applicant's file is therefore assembled from research output rather than finance credentials, which is a different piece of work from the finance-style applications a candidate may be running in the same season.