About the Role
Our Quantitative Researcher internship offers an unparalleled educational experience, allowing interns to work alongside experienced researchers to learn about identifying market signals, analyzing large datasets, building models, and creating trading strategies. Interns will gain exposure to diverse challenges in experiment design, dataset generation, time series analysis, feature engineering, and model building for financial datasets. The role involves project work complemented by classes on market fundamentals, trading, and seminars.
Responsibilities
- Identify market signals
- Analyze large datasets
- Build and test models
- Create new trading strategies
- Design experiments
- Generate datasets
- Perform time series analysis
- Engineer features
- Build models for financial datasets
- Collaborate with colleagues
Requirements
- 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
- Fluent in English
Skills
- Data science
- Machine learning
- Python programming
- Logical thinking
- Mathematical thinking
- Communication
- Collaboration
Experience Level
- Internship
Education Level
- Undergraduate student
- Graduate student
- Recent graduate
About the Company
- Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm where the lines between research, technology, and trading are intentionally blurred.
- The company provides access to petabytes of data, a computing cluster with hundreds of thousands of cores, and a GPU cluster with tens of thousands of high-end GPUs.
- Jane Street is open to and excited about applying all different types of statistical and ML techniques, from linear models to deep learning.
