Jane Street is hiring a
Quantitative Researcher

Summary

Join Jane Street as a Quantitative Research intern for a summer program that combines project work with classes and social events. You'll work alongside full-time employees, learn about market signals, data analysis, and model building, and gain insights into the firm's research challenges.

Requirements

• Able to apply logical and mathematical thinking to all kinds of problems
• Intellectually curious; eager to ask questions, admit mistakes, and learn new things
• A strong programmer who’s comfortable with Python
• An open-minded thinker and precise communicator who enjoys collaborating with colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds and areas of expertise

Responsibilities

• Work side by side with full-timers to learn how we identify market signals, analyse large datasets, build and test models, and create new trading strategies
• Conduct a study of some new or existing dataset, build new tools that support the firm’s research, or consider big-picture questions that we’re still trying to figure out

Benefits

Gain a better understanding of the diverse array of research challenges we consider every day, learning how we think about dataset generation, time series analysis, feature engineering, and model building for financial datasets