Quantitative Trader

Trading Interview; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Jane Street, a leading qualitative trading firm, emphasizes collaboration and technology-driven trading. The role involves identifying market signals, analyzing and executing strategies, and building quantitative models and trading systems.

You will work closely with experienced traders in a highly technical environment and participate in a comprehensive firmwide educational curriculum. The team values critical thinking, proactive learning, and strong organizational skills, with training and

Qualifications

• A strong quantitative mind with the ability to reason through complex problems.
• Collaborative problem-solving skills and teamwork orientation.
• Proactive, reliable, and courteous with solid organizational and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Identify market signals and analyze strategies.
• Develop and implement quantitative models for trading.
• Construct algorithmic trading systems and manage associated risk.
• Support growth of trading-related businesses and initiatives.

Skills

Quantitative mind

Collaborative problem-solver

Strong communication

Proactive and reliable

Job description

At Jane Street, quantitative traders identify market signals, analyze and execute strategies, construct quantitative models, conduct statistical analyses, build algorithmic trading systems, manage risk, develop new businesses, and more.

Our trading desks are central to our collaborative and cooperative office environment. You can expect to work side by side with experienced traders who are committed to teaching, guiding, and supporting our newest hires. Through hands-on, interactive training, you’ll acquire significant trading responsibilities within weeks to months of being on the desk. In parallel, you will participate in our robust year-long firmwide educational curriculum.

At Jane Street, the lines between research, technology, and trading are intentionally blurry, and you'll have access to 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. 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.

About You

• A critical thinker with a strong quantitative mind
• A collaborative problem-solver who enjoys working on a team
• Proactive, reliable, and courteous with strong organizational and communication skills
• Eager to ask questions, admit mistakes, and learn new things

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.

We were founded by a small group of traders and technologists in a tiny New York office. Today, we have more than 2,000 employees across five global offices. We trade...