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title: 'ASIC Physical Design Engineer at Jane Street'
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# ASIC Physical Design Engineer at Jane Street

- **Company:** Jane Street
- **Location:** New York New York, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-04-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/apply/8531243002?gh_jid=8531243002

## Job description

## About the Position

We are looking to hire an ASIC Physical Design Engineer to help us design, test, and deploy advanced hardware. As part of our Ultra Low Latency team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with people in areas across the firm, including trading, networking, and research infrastructure.

This isn't a traditional PD role. We're a small team where everyone works across the chip design process, and we expect our PD engineers to lead with physical design expertise but think like chip designers. You should be comfortable owning a PD flow end-to-end, but also able to read and write RTL and reason about design decisions that cross the front-end/back-end boundary.

If you've spent your career exclusively in PD, this probably isn't the right fit— but if you've worked across the stack, either because you started as an RTL designer and moved into PD, or because you were on a smaller team where you had to wear multiple hats, we'd love to talk.

We're big believers in the ability of tools to improve the productivity, reliability, and day-to-day joy of hardware engineering. That's why we created Hardcaml, a hardware development toolchain embedded in OCaml. We don't expect you to know OCaml (we'll teach you here), but we are looking for hardware engineers who are excited about the advantages that better tools can bring, and are willing to try new things as a result.

## About You

- You have 8+ years hands-on experience building and running modern physical design flows (e.g., floor planning, place and route, timing closure, physical verification, power analysis)
- You don't need to have optimized every last detail of every flow, but you should have broad enough experience across PD that you can own a flow end-to-end and know where the risks are
- Beyond PD, you can read and write RTL and understand how front-end design decisions affect physical implementation—and vice versa; You think about physical design in the context of the overall chip, not just as a downstream consumer of a netlist
- You're interested in using software engineering techniques to improve the hardware design process, and you have experience programming in a high-level language (Python, C++, Haskell, etc.)

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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