Jane Street also wants people with strong arms who can climb ladders
Jane Street is expanding. In London, Bloomberg reports that the electronic trading firm is doubling its office space. Some of these hires will be related to AI, where Jane Street currently has 10 vacancies worldwide. But with investment in AI comes the need for something else: investment in data centres.
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Jane Street isn’t commenting but the firm is currently on a quest to find data centre talent. It has eight data-centre related vacancies, spread across London, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong and Mumbai.
Most of Jane Street's data centre jobs are for engineers who will ‘design, build, scale and management the performance’ of Jane Street’s apparently expanding network of data centres. These engineers need server expertise and must be familiar with the use of both copper and fibre optic cables. They also need to able to lift heavy weights and to climb ladders, which are not standard when working for Jane Street.
As well as muscular engineers, Jane Street is also looking for a data centre construction manager. This person will not need to carry anything, but will be “responsible for planning and overseeing multiple data center projects of varied capacities to ensure schedules and budgets are met.” The construction manager will travel 4-6 weeks a year, touring all Jane Street’s data centres under construction. They must know about liquid cooling.
Jane Street’s enthusiasm for data centre expertise comes after the firm invested $1bn in CoreWeave and spent another $6bn to access in CoreWeave's purpose-built AI cloud platform. As we observed last month, this makes Jane Street appealing to AI researchers eager for access to computing power.
Jane Street isn’t the only electronic trading firm securing its own AI infrastructure. XTX, the electronic trading firm run by Alex Gerko, one of Deutsche Bank’s richest and most opinionated ex-traders, is also doing it. Instead of sharing with someone else, XTX is spending $1bn building its own data centres in Finland. XTX has also been hiring data centre expertise: in January it was looking for someone to manage its presence in "50" data centres globally.
It’s not clear whether Jane Street’s new data centres will be proprietary. - Some of its adverts refer to "colocation" or rack rental rather than ownership of an entire facilities. Either way, there is more than one electronic trading firm looking for strong people familiar with copper cabling. Jane Street is paying up to $225k in salary alone if you fit this description.
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