The 2026 Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship is now accepting applications. Interested candidates are urged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and to apply.
About Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship
Opportunity Details
The Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) supports exceptional doctoral students currently pursuing a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics.
At Jane Street, we take a rigorous, quantitative approach to trading on global markets, combining techniques from machine learning, distributed systems, programmable hardware, statistics, and applied mathematics. Our culture is steeped in games, puzzles, and challenging problems. With the Graduate Research Fellowship, we’re excited to support PhD students who share our values: technical excellence, intellectual curiosity, and humility.
Benefits of Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship
- Fellows will have their full tuition and fees covered for the upcoming academic year.
- Fellows will also receive a $45,000[1] USD stipend (or the equivalent in your local currency) to help with living expenses while completing their PhD.
- Fellows will be invited (but not required) to visit our office to give a talk on any topic of their choosing to Jane Street employees and other Fellowship recipients; all expenses will be paid.
All Finalists will receive a $5,000 monetary award. Those selected as Fellows will receive this in addition to their Fellowship stipend.
Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship Requirements
- PhD students who have at least one year remaining in a program in electrical engineering and computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics [2] or have committed to commence a PhD program at a specified university in the Fall of 2026 are eligible to apply.
- Students must remain in good academic standing as an active, full-time member of their PhD program at a degree-granting accredited research institution in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, or New Zealand for the duration of the academic year of the award, or the award will be forfeited. Deferrals for medical reasons and other extenuating circumstances may be granted on a case-by-case basis.
- International students are eligible and encouraged to apply!
- Current employees (and their immediate family members) as well as former employees are not eligible to become fellows or finalists, though they may be considered for honorable mentions.
- Generally, PhD fellowships require university-specific payment negotiations; if accepted, we will work with your program to arrange the award of your fellowship.
Application Date and Process
Complete applications should include:
- A CV or resume.
- A brief statement explaining your research (or proposed research direction). This should be geared toward a general, mathematically or technically inclined audience who may not be specialists in your field. If you already have a statement of this form, feel free to use it for this application. If not, we suggest writing something 1-2 pages in length (though longer is fine if you feel it is necessary).
- Contact information for your letter writer(s). Please note that once we receive an application, we will reach out to your letter writers directly to collect their recommendations.
If you have questions about the application process, or are a faculty member who wishes to nominate a student, please email [email protected].
Application Deadline
21 November, 2025
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