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title: 'Architect at Jane Street'
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# Architect at Jane Street

- **Company:** Jane Street
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/apply/8836991002?gh_jid=8836991002

## Job description

## About the position

We’re looking for an Architect to help us design, build, and refine our global offices. Based in our New York headquarters, you will work with colleagues across three continents to design spaces that support how Jane Street works.

You’ll work closely with external architects and consultants to shape projects from early design through construction. You’ll set design priorities, review concepts and drawings, and explore alternatives with the project team to make sure the spaces we build meet our needs.

Internally, you will take ownership of projects and workstreams from early planning through design, procurement, construction, closeout, and post-occupancy. This will require collaborating closely with colleagues to turn competing requirements into practical recommendations that balance design quality, budget, schedule, constructability, resilience, and long-term operating and maintenance needs.

We take particular pride in these projects because we get to work in the spaces we build. Every day is an opportunity to help our colleagues do their best work, and we welcome ideas that challenge how things have been done before.

Additional responsibilities of this role will include:

- Establishing project briefs, design priorities, scopes, budgets, schedules, and decision processes with colleagues
- Developing initial test fits and reviewing and redlining consultant concepts, layouts, drawings, specifications, and details
- Coordinating internal teams, external consultants, and contractors to ensure recommendations work across disciplines and reflect Jane Street’s priorities
- Managing specialist partners, including furniture vendors, food service consultants, permitting consultants, artists, fabricators, and workplace strategists
- Translating input from users, consultants, vendors, and internal teams into practical recommendations that balance design concept and user experience with constructability, schedule, budget, and long-term flexibility
- Working with creative colleagues and specialist partners on materials, finishes, furniture, wayfinding, and installations
- Overseeing construction administration, including RFIs, submittals, mockups, field observations, change proposals, punch lists, and closeout
- Tracking decisions and risks, resolving open issues, and applying lessons from completed projects to future designs, standards, and ways of working

## About you

- Have 7+ years of experience in workplace architecture and project delivery, with strong design and technical skills, including interior detailing and a working knowledge of building codes
- Have an instinct for designing spaces that feel like us: curious in their conception, rigorous in their logic, and thoughtful in every detail
- Comfortable taking responsibility for projects and workstreams, managing competing priorities, and coordinating work across regions
- Able to delegate work to consultants and hold them accountable without taking over their responsibilities
- Can synthesize design, technical, financial, and operational input into practical recommendations, identifying solutions rather than simply documenting problems
- Can make sound decisions with incomplete or changing information and maintain credible contingency plans
- Can communicate clearly with designers, contractors, and colleagues, seek out others’ expertise, and challenge requirements constructively
- Curious about new tools, including AI, and how they can streamline workflows and improve project quality
- Proficiency with Bluebeam, Revit, AutoCAD, and Excel is preferred
- Architectural licensure is preferred

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com

## About Jane Street

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jane Street is a global quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider that uses sophisticated technology, machine learning, and deep market expertise to trade financial products across equities, bonds, options, and ETFs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (not publicly traded)
- **Headquarters**: New York, USA (with offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam)
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed as a single founder group; the firm was founded by a team of quantitative traders and technologists.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Quantitative finance / Proprietary trading / Market making
- **Target customers**: Institutional clients (asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies, hedge funds) and global exchanges; the firm acts as a liquidity provider on over 200 electronic exchanges.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Solving the puzzle of global markets” — a research-driven approach to trading, blending human intuition with cutting-edge quantitative analysis.

## Products & Services
- **Market Making**: Jane Street provides continuous, two-sided quotes on equities, ETFs, bonds, options, and other instruments, helping keep prices consistent and reliable across global markets.
- **Proprietary Trading**: The firm trades its own capital across a wide range of asset classes, using sophisticated models and automated strategies.
- **Institutional Sales & Trading**: Partners with asset managers, pensions, and insurance companies to provide trading solutions and access to differentiated liquidity.
- **Technology & Infrastructure**: Builds all critical software in-house (trading systems, risk management, data analysis tools), using the OCaml functional programming language.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private firm). Industry estimates suggest Jane Street is one of the world’s largest and most profitable market makers, with annual trading volumes in the trillions of dollars.
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly disclosed. The firm is widely reported to have generated billions in annual revenue and profit, though exact figures are private.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 100% employee-owned. No external investors. Partners include top institutional clients globally.
- **Growth Signals**: Jane Street has grown every year in team, capital, and global presence since its founding in 2000. It has expanded from a focus on ETFs into equities, bonds, options, and other asset classes. The firm continues to invest heavily in machine learning and quantitative research.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technical Moat**: Builds almost all software in-house using OCaml, a statically typed functional language that provides high reliability, real-time visibility, and performance at market scale.
- **Data & Scale**: Trades on 200+ electronic exchanges globally, processing trillions of historical events to uncover both sub-microsecond and long-term market inefficiencies.
- **Talent Density**: A culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration across trading, research, and technology teams. The firm is known for hiring top minds from any background (math, physics, CS, engineering) and training them in-house.
- **Long-Term Track Record**: Over 20 years of consistent growth and profitability, navigating volatile markets with a disciplined, research-driven approach.

## Strategic Focus
- **Machine Learning & Quantitative Research**: Deepening the use of ML techniques across all trading strategies, from high-frequency to long-term systematic models.
- **Global Expansion**: Continuing to grow its presence in existing offices (NY, London, HK, Singapore, Amsterdam) and exploring new markets.
- **Technology Investment**: Ongoing investment in infrastructure, hardware (e.g., programmable hardware, high-performance computing), and software tools to maintain a competitive edge.
- **Talent Pipeline**: Heavy focus on recruiting interns and new grads, as well as experienced hires, with structured programs for learning and mentorship.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “open and collaborative,” with porous boundaries between trading, research, and technology. Intellectual humility and curiosity are highly valued.
- **Learning & Development**: Offers immersive internships, multi-day programs, direct mentorship, and a week abroad for interns. Full-time employees have access to extensive internal training, a library, and classrooms in every office.
- **Work Environment**: Most employees write code as part of their regular work. The firm is known for its technical excellence and for using the most advanced tools available.
- **Benefits**: Daily breakfast and lunch, fully-stocked kitchens, on-site gyms, nursing suites, quiet rooms, recreation spaces, health services, and more. Offices are designed for collaboration and deep focus.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the firm emphasizes in-person collaboration on trading floors. Offices are located in major global cities.
- **Diversity**: Actively seeks people from all backgrounds and emphasizes that the company is only as strong as its people.

## Sources
1. [janestreet.com - Home](https://www.janestreet.com/)
2. [janestreet.com - Overview](https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/overview/)
3. [janestreet.com - What We Do](https://www.janestreet.com/what-we-do/overview/)
4. [janestreet.com - Departments](https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/departments)
5. [janestreet.com - Open Roles](https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/open-roles/)

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