Our goal is to give you a real sense of what it's like to work at Jane Street full time while also providing a truly unparalleled educational experience. As an intern, you are paired with full-time employees who act as mentors, collaborating with you on real-world projects we actually need done.
As a Mechanical Engineer Intern, you’ll support a highly technical group that is responsible for providing our trading and data center environments. The group’s goal is to design and manage reliable trading floors and data centers that optimize the work experience at Jane Street.
You will work with the group to perform research analysis and design resilient systems within our data centers and office spaces. Over the course of your internship, you’ll learn to:
- Think about infrastructure design and resiliency associated with trading environments
- Understand the communication protocol topology necessary for critical infrastructure monitoring and trending
- Research and implement innovative and sustainable design solutions in high-demand usage spaces
- Integrate complex engineering requirements into trading and data center designs
- Visit project sites to analyze existing conditions and project construction progress for all engineering disciplines
- Prepare project documents, including but not limited to meeting minutes, field reports, and investigation reports
- Plan for design capacity with a local and global perspective
- Collaborate in a fast-paced environment with engineers and non-engineers
Learn more about Jane Street’s internship program here.
About youWe don’t expect you to have a background in finance or any other specific field—we’re looking for smart people who enjoy solving interesting problems. We’re more interested in how you think and learn than what you currently know. You should be:
- Pursuing a mechanical or electrical engineering degree; hands-on experience in one or more of these areas is preferred
- Open-minded and willing to learn engineering skills outside of a specific discipline
- Comfortable in an IT-centric environment
- A strong communicator who can describe detailed problems with brevity and accuracy
- Able to demonstrate well-reasoned engineering decisions and sound design experience
- Proficient at using AI tools to increase efficiency while having a strong understanding of engineering first principals and able to explain methods/results
- Interested in sustainability and wellness goals for data centers and office spaces
- Pursuing professional engineering licensure (EIT is recommended)
Skills Required
- Pursuing a mechanical or electrical engineering degree
- Hands-on experience in mechanical or electrical engineering
- Open-mindedness and willingness to learn engineering skills outside a specific discipline
- Comfort working in an IT-centric environment
- Strong communication skills, including describing detailed problems concisely and accurately
- Ability to demonstrate well-reasoned engineering decisions and sound design experience
- Proficiency using AI tools to improve efficiency, with strong understanding of engineering first principles and ability to explain methods and results
- Interest in sustainability and wellness goals for data centers and office spaces
- Pursuing professional engineering licensure; EIT recommended
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.
Jane Street Insights
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.
