Quantitative Trader

Summary

Join Jane Street as a Quantitative Trading Intern and explore ways to approach and solve exciting problems within your field of interest through fun and challenging classes, interactive sessions, guest speakers, and group discussions. You will also have the chance to put those lessons to practical use, pairing up with full-time Jane Street employees who act as mentors and collaborate with you on real-world projects we actually need done.

Requirements

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

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
• Conduct studies on new or existing datasets, build quantitative models, write tools, and even consider big-picture questions that we're still trying to figure out
• Participate in dozens of simulated interactive team-based mock trading sessions

Benefits

• Participate in intensive classes on the broader fundamentals of markets and trading
• Attend workshops on various tools we use
• Participate in interactive lunch seminars with senior traders
• Get to participate in one “elective” based on your interests