About the Role
Our Quantitative Trader internship offers an unparalleled educational experience, teaching you to identify market signals, analyze and execute strategies, construct quantitative models, and build trading intuition. You'll work with experienced traders, access vast datasets and computing resources, and apply diverse statistical and ML techniques. The program includes intensive classes, workshops, mock trading sessions, and elective courses in Machine Learning, Algorithmic Trading, or Trading Strategy.
Responsibilities
- Identify market signals
- Analyze and execute strategies
- Construct quantitative models
- Conduct statistical analysis
- Build trading intuition
- Apply statistical and ML techniques
- Analyze new or existing datasets
- Train predictive models
- Simulate potential new trading strategies
- Write tools for production
- Answer big-picture questions
- Participate in targeted classes and immersive activities
- Develop an algorithmic trading strategy
- Implement a trading strategy in Python
- Optimize trading strategies
- Refine strategies based on trading scenarios
- Write recaps for trading scenarios
Requirements
- Strong quantitative thinker
- Clear and effective verbal and written communicator
- Enjoys working collaboratively on a team
- Eager to ask questions, admit mistakes, and learn new things
- Fluent in English
- General programming experience is a plus
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Modelling
- Data Science
- Statistical techniques
- Algorithmic Trading
- Market Microstructure
- Python
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Work Type
- Internship
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Intern
- Entry Level
Education Level
- No specific degree or major required
Benefits
- Classes
- Workshops
- Team-based mock trading sessions
- Elective courses
About the Company
- Jane Street is a trading firm that is also a technology company.
- We 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 are open to and excited about applying all different types of statistical and ML techniques, from linear models to deep learning.
