Quantitative Trader

About the Position

Our goals are to give you a real sense of what it’s like to work as a quantitative trader at Jane Street, and a truly unparalleled educational experience. You’ll be paired with experienced quantitative traders who will teach you how to identify market signals, analyze and execute strategies, construct quantitative models, conduct statistical analysis, and build trading intuition.

You'll work closely with two different mentors on projects relating to their day-to-day work, giving you a sense of the variety of problems we solve every day. Past projects have included analyzing new or existing datasets, training predictive models, simulating potential new trading strategies, writing tools that we use in production, and even working to answer big-picture questions we haven’t yet figured out.

This work is reinforced with intensive classes, workshops, and team-based mock trading sessions. These will expose you to many of the dynamics...