Graduate Quantitative Researcher

Jane Street SG; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Jane Street is seeking Quantitative Researchers to help build models, strategies, and systems for pricing and trading financial instruments. You’ll collaborate with researchers, engineers, and traders to train models, design experiments, generate datasets, and analyze time series data.

Strong Python programming skills and curiosity about learning new techniques are essential. PhD or research experience is a plus, with candidates often having background in data science or machine learning.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Most candidates will have experience with data science or machine learning, but ultimately, we’re more interested in how you think and learn than what you currently know.
• PhD or other research experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build models, strategies, and systems to price and trade financial instruments.
• Work side by side with researchers, engineers, and traders to train models and run trading strategies.
• Engage in experiment design, dataset generation, time series analysis, feature engineering, and model building for financial datasets.

Skills

Python programming

Data science / ML experience

Logical and mathematical thinking

Collaborative communication

Education

PhD or research experience

Job description

About the position

We are looking for Quantitative Researchers to help us build models, strategies, and systems that price and trade financial instruments. You’ll work side by side with experienced researchers who are committed to teaching, guiding, and supporting our newest hires, learning how we think about experiment design, dataset generation, time series analysis, feature engineering, and model building for financial datasets.
At Jane Street, our researchers, engineers, and traders sit a few feet away from each other and work together to train models, architect systems, and run trading strategies. We work with petabytes of data, a computing cluster with hundreds of thousands of cores, and a growing GPU cluster containing tens of thousands of high-end GPUs. Depending on the day, we might be diving deep into market data, tuning hyperparameters, debugging distributed training performance, or studying how our model likes to trade in production.
We don’t believe in "one-size-fits-all" modelling solutions; we are open to and excited about applying all different types of statistical and ML techniques, from linear models to deep learning, depending on what best fits a given problem. The most successful researchers will be driven by a curiosity for how their contributions fit into the larger picture of our trading operations, and how to adapt their findings into actionable strategies.

About you

If you’ve never thought about a career in finance, you’re in good company. Many of us were in the same position before working here. If you have a curious mind and a passion for solving interesting problems, we have a feeling you’ll fit right in. You should be:

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

Most candidates will have experience with data science or machine learning, but ultimately, we’re more interested in how you think and learn than what you currently know. PhD or other research experience is a plus.
If you’d like to learn more, you can read about our interview process and meet some of the team.

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Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.

More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.

More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.

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