Jane Street's compute footprint is growing fast, and we’re looking for someone who can support buying across memory, NAND, and CPU infrastructure. This position will be at the heart of our technology stack, with a focus on growing our hardware relationships and strengthening our partnerships with our most critical vendors.
The ideal candidate is a technologist with the ambition and vision to grow these capabilities—someone who is equally comfortable managing complex commercial deals and partnering with our engineers, researchers, and traders to define and challenge our requirements.
Additional responsibilities of the role will include:
- Owning direct relationships with strategic component manufacturers across DRAM, NAND, and CPU
- Leading the full lifecycle of commercial and technical negotiations for securing multi-year capacity contracts and allocations from manufacturers
- Partnering with our engineering and Infrastructure teams to translate technical requirements into sourcing strategy and to feed supply-side intelligence (e.g., lead times, roadmaps, allocation cycles) back into capacity planning
- Forecasting demand and managing the supply pipeline against the firm's growth in compute and storage
- Working closely with our hardware procurement and demand planning teams to provide a view of component supplier vs. OEM/ODM allocation commitments
- Have an understanding of both hardware and strategic sourcing, and are familiar with the hardware procurement and deployment life cycle for hyperscalers, OEMs, ODMs, and component manufacturers
- You’re someone who enjoys building and cultivating supplier relationships; ideally, you have existing relationships with one or more of the major DRAM, NAND, or CPU manufacturers
- Have a deep working understanding of how allocation cycles and consigned/customer-furnished component models work in practice
- Experienced with negotiating long-term supply agreements
- Possess enough technical depth to engage substantively with engineers on how we plan to use the hardware
- Comfortable with commercial complexity (e.g., netting allocations through OEM bills of materials, handling warranties for non-OEM-sourced parts, and engaging brokers and distributors)
- Willing and able to learn a new domain (we don’t expect deep expertise in every aspect of the supply chain, but we do expect a strong intellectual curiosity and an ability to learn quickly)
- A strong negotiator; equally comfortable working collaboratively with internal partners and pushing hard with external vendors
- Interested in understanding both the macro-level strategy and the micro-level details of our procurement process
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected].
Skills Required
- Understanding of hardware procurement and strategic sourcing lifecycle for hyperscalers, OEMs, ODMs, and component manufacturers
- Existing relationships with major DRAM, NAND, or CPU manufacturers
- Deep working understanding of allocation cycles and consigned/customer-furnished component models
- Experience negotiating long-term supply agreements and commercial contracts
- Technical depth to engage substantively with engineers on hardware usage
- Comfort handling commercial complexity (netting OEM BOMs, warranties for non-OEM parts, engaging brokers/distributors)
- Forecasting demand and managing supply pipeline against compute and storage growth
- Proven ability to own direct relationships with component manufacturers and secure capacity/allocations
- Ability to partner with hardware procurement and demand planning teams to reconcile supplier vs OEM/ODM allocation commitments
- Strong negotiation skills and collaborative internal partnership capabilities
- Willingness and ability to learn a new domain quickly
Jane Street Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jane Street and has not been reviewed or approved by Jane Street.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are offered at no cost for employees and dependents, with robust onsite care including primary care, physical therapy, and mental‑health therapy. Private onsite gyms and counseling resources further reinforce the health focus.
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Parental & Family Support — Fully paid parental leave for all parents, with additional time for birth parents, is highlighted alongside expanded fertility benefits and well‑equipped nursing suites. These offerings position family support as a core element of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Daily free meals and snacks, private onsite gyms, recreation spaces, and rich learning programs (including tuition reimbursement and company classes) elevate day‑to‑day quality of life. Onsite medical suites and speaker series add to the lifestyle and development mix.
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What We Do
Jane Street works differently. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we trade on more than 200 trading venues across 45 countries and help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative analysis, but our success is driven by our people. Our bright, beautiful offices in the heart of New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam are open and buzzing with conversation. We come from many backgrounds and encourage travel between offices to share perspectives. Some of our best ideas come from bumping into a visiting colleague at the office coffee bar. Markets move fast. Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention—of new trading strategies, technology, and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. They tend to help each other, and prioritize teamwork over titles. We invest heavily in teaching and training. There’s a library and a classroom in every office, because deepening your understanding of something is considered real work. Guest lectures, classes, and conferences round out the intellectual exchanges that happen every day. People grow into long careers at Jane Street because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
