Required Skills & Qualifications:
1–3 years of professional experience writing clean, preferably in modern C++, with a strong grasp of memory management and multi-threading.
AI/ML Familiarity: Academic or professional experience working with machine learning libraries and frameworks.
Interest in trading and financial markets.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and with colleagues around the world.
Quick to learn and curious about all things.
Understand performance verification and optimization tools.
CS Fundamentals:
Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithmic complexity.
Scripting & Data:
Competence in Python, Perl, Shell scripting and SQL for data analysis, prototyping, and integrating AI models.
Education:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a highly quantitative field.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP) or hardware acceleration (CUDA/GPUs).
Familiarity with CVS, git and Linux/Unix environments.
Basic understanding of quantitative finance and algorithmic trading.
About Us
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
Skills Required
- 1-3 years professional experience writing modern C++ with strong memory management and multi-threading knowledge.
- Academic or professional experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks.
- Interest in trading and financial markets.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and collaborate with global colleagues.
- Quick to learn and curious.
- Understanding of performance verification and optimization tools.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithmic complexity.
- Competence in Python, Perl, Shell scripting and SQL for data analysis and prototyping.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a highly quantitative field.
- Experience with networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP) or hardware acceleration (CUDA/GPUs).
- Familiarity with CVS, git and Linux/Unix environments.
- Basic understanding of quantitative finance and algorithmic trading.
Jefferies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jefferies and has not been reviewed or approved by Jefferies.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation is positioned as competitive with meaningful upside, with potential for significant earnings depending on group performance and strong years. A formulaic, performance-linked bonus model ties payouts to individual fees or P&L, reinforcing a pay-for-results dynamic.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support is broad, including primary and non-primary caregiver leave, adoption assistance, subsidized emergency child and eldercare, and a $25,000 stipend for qualified surrogacy, adoption, or fertility support. Added resources like family support programs and parental-leave coaching further strengthen caregiver benefits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle perks extend beyond standard coverage, including discount programs, commuter benefits, legal plans, charitable matching, and education assistance such as tuition support and scholarships for employees’ family members. Location-specific perks like gym stipends and free cafeteria lunch are also described as available in some offices.
Jefferies Insights
What We Do
Jefferies, the global investment banking firm, has served companies and investors for 60 years. Headquartered in New York, with offices in over 30 cities around the world, the firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research, as well as asset and wealth management. The firm provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services including underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company. More about our company can be found at www.jefferies.com.
