Quantitative Researcher

The role

Quantitative Researchers build models, strategies and systems that price and trade financial instruments. You will apply experience in experiment design, dataset generation, time series analysis, feature engineering and model building to financial datasets.

What you will do

• Build models, strategies and systems that price and trade financial instruments
• Apply experience in experiment design, dataset generation, time series analysis, feature engineering and model building to financial datasets
• Collaborate with colleagues to refine approaches
• Dive deep into market data
• Tune hyperparameters
• Debug distributed training performance
• Study how models trade in production

Required qualifications

• Able to apply logical and mathematical thinking to all kinds of problems
• Intellectually curious
• Strong programmer who is comfortable with Python
• Open-minded thinker
• Precise communicator
• Fluent in English

About the company

At Jane Street, researchers, engineers and traders work together to train models, architect systems and run trading strategies using petabytes of data and a large GPU cluster.