Jane Street

Quantitative Trader

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Permanent position
Permanent position
International excluding Germany
Entry from the 21.09.2026
Position number 120714

Description

About the position

At Jane Street, quantitative traders identify market signals, analyse 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” 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.

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. We’re looking for smart people who enjoy solving interesting problems, and we’re more interested in how you think and learn than what you currently know. You should be:

- A critical thinker with a strong quantitative mind
- A collaborative problem-solver who enjoys working on a team
- Proactive, reliable, and courteous with strong organisational and communication skills
- 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 our interview process and meet some of the team.

Your skills

Field of study preferred
  • Engineering sciences
    • Architecture
    Civil engineering
    Biological engineering
    Chemical & process engineering
    Electrical engineering & information technologies
    Geodesy & geoinformatics
    Informatics
    Mechanical engineering
    Material sciences & engineering
    Mechatronics & information technologies
    Optics & photonics
    Other fields of study
    Engineering Structures
    Mobility and Infrastructure
    Regional Science
    Water science engineering
    Mechanical Engineering
    Energy Engineering and Management
    Mobility Systems Engineering and Management
    Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics
    Management of Product Development
    Information System Engineering and Management
    Technology and Management in Construction
    Biomedical Engineering
    Computer Science
    Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
    Mechatronics and Information Technology
    Medical technology
    Photon Science and Technology
  • Natural sciences and Technology
    • Applied geosciences
    Biology
    Chemistry
    Chemical biology
    Geoecology
    Geophysics
    Food chemistry
    Mathematics
    Meteorology
    Physics
    Other fields of study
    Mathematics in Technology
    Meteorology and Climate Physics
    Applied Environmental Informatics and Earth Observation
    Computational and Data Sience
    Geophysics
    Meteorology and Climate Physics
    Physics
    Techno-Mathe­matics
  • Other e.g. teaching degrees
    • Other fields of study
    German
    Philosophy / Ethics
    Sports
    Biology
    Chemistry
    Geography
    Computer Science
    Engineering Education
    Mathe­matics
    Natural sciences and Technology
    Physics
  • Economic & law sciences
    • Information Engineering
    Business engineering
    Business management
    Other fields of study
    Digital Economics
    Fincinal Engineering
    Production and Operations Management
Favored career stage
  • Graduate/Beginner

This is what the workplace looks like.

Sector
  • Finance & accounting
Working time model
Full-time
Language at workplace
English

Company information

Type of company
Corporation

Contact

Mrs. / Ms. Ariana Kamboj
Jane Street
2½, Devonshire Square
EC2M 4UJ London
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 020 3787 3200
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Company address

Jane Street
2½, Devonshire Square
EC2M 4UJ London
United Kingdom
Telefon: +44 020 3787 3200
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