Quant jobs / Jane Street

Quantitative Trader Internship

A summer internship learning quantitative trading with mentors, through projects, classes and mock trading sessions. Interns pick one elective, such as ML, algorithmic trading or trading scenarios.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Analyse a new or existing dataset
Train a predictive model or simulate a strategy
Write a tool used in production
Take part in team mock trading sessions and strategy recaps

What they ask for

Required

Strong quantitative thinking
Clear written and spoken communication
Team working
Willingness to ask questions and learn

Preferred

General programming experience

Education: No specific degree or major required.
Experience: Students; no experience required
Languages and tools: Python

How to prepare

Practise mental arithmetic, probability and expected value problems
Play market-making style games and keep a record of your decisions
Learn how limit order books work
Write a simple strategy in Python against simulated data

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Jane Street and doesn’t handle applications.