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Mechanical Engineer

Jane Street

New York, New York, United StatesInternOn-site

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Description

About the position

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 you

We 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)

How this employer is doing

solid

  • Recently Raised Funding

Typical pay for this role

$120,000

Typical range: $80,000 to $140,000

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