Mechanical Engineer Interns support the design and management of resilient trading floors, data centers, and office infrastructure. Responsibilities include researching and implementing sustainable engineering solutions, analyzing infrastructure and communication topology, integrating engineering requirements into designs, visiting project sites, documenting field conditions and progress, planning design capacity, and collaborating with technical and non-technical teams. The role emphasizes learning, engineering judgment, AI-assisted efficiency, sustainability, and communication.
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 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)
Jane Street New York, New York, USA Office
250 Vesey Street, New York, NY, United States, 10281
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