Quantitative Trader

Jane Street; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trading firm in Hong Kong is looking for a Quantitative Trading Intern. This role involves working closely with experienced traders to analyze market signals and participate in workshops that foster hands-on learning. Ideal candidates are strong quantitative thinkers fluent in English, with clear communication skills. You will work on diverse projects, contributing to innovative trading strategies while engaging in intensive educational sessions. This position offers a unique chance to delve into the intersection of finance and technology within a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• No specific degree required, but strong quantitative thinking is essential.
• General programming experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work with experienced quantitative traders to identify market signals.
• Analyze and execute strategies, construct quantitative models.
• Participate in intense classes and workshops related to trading.

Skills

Fluent in English

Strong quantitative thinker

Clear communication skills

Collaborative spirit

Job description

Qualifications

• Fluent in English
• This work is reinforced with intensive classes
• A strong quantitative thinker (no specific degree)

Overview

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 we observe in real markets, illustrate the role that we play in making markets more efficient, and help build intuition for how we think about both trading and collaborating.

At Jane Street, the lines between research, technology, and trading are intentionally blurry. As our strategies grow more sophisticated, close collaboration is essential for continuing to push the boundaries of what’s possible. We work with petabytes of data, have a computing cluster with hundreds of thousands of cores, and a growing GPU cluster containing thousands of high-end GPUs. We don’t believe in “one-size-fits-all” modeling 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.

Electives

Quantitative trading interns also have the opportunity to participate in one “elective” based on your interests. Electives consist of targeted classes and immersive activities, and are designed to give you a deeper and more nuanced look into one of the many aspects of what quantitative trading can look like at Jane Street:

• Machine Learning, Modeling, and Data Science
• Algorithmic Trading and Market Microstructure
• Trading Strategy and Scenarios

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, a collaborative spirit, and a passion for solving interesting problems, we have a feeling you’ll fit right in. We’re more interested in how you think and learn than what you currently know. You should be:

• A strong quantitative thinker (no specific degree or major is required)
• A clear and effective verbal and written communicator
• Someone who enjoys working collaboratively on a team
• Eager to ask questions, admit mistakes, and learn new things
• Fluent in English

A profitable trading strategy is only as strong as the technology it runs on, and we consider ourselves as much a technology company as a trading firm. General programming experience is a plus, but knowing a particular programming language is not required.

If you’d like to learn more, you can read about ourinterview process and meet some of the team. Learn more about Jane Street’s internship program here.