Machine Learning Researcher at Jane Street
New York, NY
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Jul 5, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An internship for ML researchers in which interns work directly alongside full-time staff on projects drawn from live research into systematic trading strategies. Day-to-day work spans exploring new datasets, experimenting with modeling approaches, tuning and debugging models, and analyzing predictions — all against large-scale, nonstationary financial data. The role suits students or postdocs with hands-on ML experience who are comfortable working in Python and iterating quickly on ideas.
Junior level · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Internship
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,900 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 2,150–4,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $103,548–$176,968).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
This is an internship role open to undergraduates, PhD students, and postdocs — no minimum years of professional experience are stated.
The posting is for Jane Street's ML Research internship program. While Jane Street's primary office is in New York City, the posting does not explicitly state a location; NYC is inferred from Jane Street's known headquarters.
The only hard-gated technologies are Python and a candidate's 'favorite ML framework' — the specific framework is left open, so common alternatives (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX) are listed.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) is noted because the role involves substantial implementation and iteration work, but the primary framing is clearly ML research.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Posting is for a internship engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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