Quantitative Trader

Summary

Join us for a real sense of what it’s like to work at Jane Street full time, exploring ways to approach and solve exciting problems within your field of interest through fun and challenging classes, interactive sessions, and group discussions.

Requirements

• Be a strong quantitative thinker who enjoys working collaboratively on a team
• Be eager to ask questions, admit mistakes, and learn new things
• Be fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Be paired with experienced traders who will teach you how to identify market signals, analyze and execute strategies, construct quantitative models, conduct statistical analysis, and build trading intuition
• Work on projects alongside mentors in two different areas of trading, giving you a sense of the variety of problems we solve every day
• Participate in dozens of simulated interactive team-based mock trading sessions to expose you to many of the dynamics we observe in real markets and help build intuition for how we think about both trading and collaborating
• Take intensive classes on the broader fundamentals of markets and trading, workshops on various tools we use, and interactive lunch seminars with senior traders
• Participate in one “elective” based on your interests, which consist of targeted classes and immersive activities designed to give you a deeper and more nuanced look into one of the many aspects of what trading and research can look like at Jane Street

Benefits

Jane Street will provide flights to and from Hong Kong as well as accommodation throughout the entirety of the program