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How to Get a Jane Street Internship from Carnegie Mellon

6 min read · Updated September 23, 2026

Jane Street is one of the most sought-after internships for math and computer science students, and Carnegie Mellon is one of the schools it knows best. The process is less about your resume and more about how you think. Here's how CMU students get there.

What Jane Street hires interns for

Jane Street's internship programs include:

  • Quantitative Trading Intern
  • Quantitative Research Intern
  • Software Engineer Intern

Pick one before you start. Your networking, resume and interview prep all get sharper when they point at a single program and office.

When to apply

Quant trading firms hire on a rolling basis, usually starting in late summer and fall for the following summer. There's no advantage to waiting: apply as soon as you're ready, and prepare before you do.

Using CMU to get in

CMU's School of Computer Science and math programs are exactly the backgrounds quant firms hire from, so Jane Street has CMU alumni across trading, research and engineering.

Use CMU's career center and campus events. Math and programming competitions and quant or trading clubs are where you'll build the skills interviews test and meet people who've done these internships.

Pick your track. Trading interviews lean on probability, estimation and fast decisions. Software engineering interviews lean on programming. Jane Street is known for writing much of its software in OCaml, but you're not expected to know it before you arrive.

  1. 1Pick the role
    One program, one office, one deadline.
  2. 2Map alumni
    People from your school at the firm now.InternMax: Alumni search
  3. 3Tailor
    A resume built for that posting.InternMax: Tailored resume
  4. 4Network
    Three to five real conversations before you apply.
  5. 5Apply early
    Submit in the first weeks, with a name to mention.
  6. 6Prep
    Behavioral stories and technicals, out loud.InternMax: Mock interviews
The path from CMU to a Jane Street offer. Start two steps earlier than feels necessary.

Networking into Jane Street from CMU

Search LinkedIn for “Jane Street” filtered to Carnegie Mellon. Quant networking is lighter than banking, because interviews do most of the selecting, but a conversation with a former intern is the best way to understand what the interviews feel like.

A first message that works

Hi Priya,

I'm a CMU sophomore in math and CS, and I saw you interned at Jane Street as a quant trader before joining full time.

I'm applying this cycle and would love to hear what helped you most in preparing for the trading interviews.

Would you have 15 minutes for a quick call?

Thanks,

Daniel

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Tailor your resume to the program

Match your resume to the specific Jane Street posting: prove each requirement it lists, use its phrasing where it's true, and keep it to one page. The full process is in how to tailor your resume for each internship.

What Jane Street interviews focus on

  • Probability and expected-value problems, solved out loud.
  • Mental math and estimation under time pressure.
  • Trading-style games where you make markets and update on new information.
  • For software roles: programming problems, where clear reasoning matters as much as the answer.

For a week-by-week plan, see how to prepare for internship interviews.

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