Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Core Development is a global team of technologists who architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software & hardware engineering, data science and research, to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.

Software Engineers within Core Development design, build and test the infrastructure, tools and systems that drive Jump’s business. They collaborate extensively with traders, quantitative researchers and technologists across the organization to solve difficult technical problems ranging from CPU architecture and operating systems to networking and hardware. We look for strong problem solvers who are passionate, inquisitive and enjoy collaborating with others in a fast-paced and energetic environment.

Skills You’ll Need:

• At least 4+ years of modern C++ development experience in a Linux environment
• Strong understanding of computer systems e.g. operating systems, networks, and performance optimization
• Experience in Object-Oriented design and multi threaded programming
• Experience in creating/supporting cross-platform multi threaded applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ideally some experience in developing low latency systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Core Development is a global team of technologists who architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software & hardware engineering, data science and research, to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.

About the Role:

Our Software Engineer internship is an intensive 10-week experience at Jump Trading's Sydney (or Singapore) office. You will be working with the team that helps the business make sense of data. You will get to sharpen your Python skills, through the mentorship provided by our Software Engineers, by researching, analyzing and building high-impact solutions and products that connect data better with the daily trading environment. At Jump, you will experience a healthy work-life balance, a casual environment, and a flat management structure. Our internship program is the primary way we identify top young talent, and it’s a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at Jump.

What you’ll do:

• You will be working with our experienced engineers and receive ongoing feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the summer.
• You will use your Python programming skills to build high-impact products, helping Jump tackle exciting new initiatives and streamline every part of the trade cycle.
• You will also be part of the team that collects and analyzes datasets, to identify patterns and gain insights, to discover new and creative opportunities and solutions.
• You will take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release.
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll need:

• Strong academic foundation with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely-related field
• Experience in using Python programming to investigate, make sense of, and improve on open-ended scenarios.
• Exposure to tools such as Pandas, NumPy, PyCharm
• Experience working with Linux/UNIX OS including advanced commands and shell scripts
• Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, ethernet
• Curiosity for all things trading and computer related, taking a rigorous, detail-oriented approach in all that you do.
• Desire to make an impact in a collaborative, cross-team environment with a positive can-do attitude
• Ability to operate independently and communicate clearly in the fast-paced environment of a daily live-trading operation
• Reliable and predictable availability

Also helpful, but not required:

• Past internship or job experience in a software engineering role

* No finance or economics study or work experience required

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Jump Trading's Post Trade Analytics Team plays a crucial role in measuring and optimizing performance and trade execution across all global markets where the firm operates. This team is responsible for developing, operating, and maintaining performance measurement solutions, as well as conducting a wide range of post-trade analyses for various departments, including trading, business development, and other central teams. Daily, the team's core infrastructure collects, organizes, and stores billions of data points related to trading performance.

As a Data Scientist on the PTA team, you will conduct cutting-edge analyses on this extensive data to uncover competitive edges, answer complex business questions, and identify root causes of underperformance. This role offers a comprehensive view into Jump's business through the lens of data, along with the opportunity to develop both trading and technical expertise. Your work will significantly contribute to Jump's success by mining and enriching data to drive informed decisions and strategies. The ideal candidate will have the ability to work closely with and collaborate across trading and trading infrastructure teams. We are looking for an individual who is instinctively curious, self-driven, keen to dive into the complex trading world, and has demonstrated an ability to independently drive tasks and projects to completion in a team environment.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with trading teams to perform post trade analysis on trading performance, linking PnL metrics with latency and other infrastructure measurements
• Identify relationships between business metrics and changes in the infrastructure technology
• Conduct research for the purpose of modeling exchange performance
• Develop mathematical methodology to quantify the impact that specific internal applications have on general performance
• Design innovative alert detection algorithms to proactively detect new business opportunities, performance degradation or abnormal PnL-impacting events
• Participate in the building of new and innovative datasets
• Develop and improve quantitative research frameworks
• Other duties as needed

Skills You’ll Need:

• At least 5+ years of programming experience in Python with a data science and analytics focus
• Strong data intuition combined with a healthy skepticism for easy conclusions
• Excellent problem-solving abilities
• Experience in documenting and communicating analysis to both technical and business audiences, including members of the senior leadership team
• Background in statistics
• Experience with SQL is a plus.
• Practical experience with machine learning technics is a plus.
• Understanding of network protocols (IP, UDP, TCP, Ethernet) is a plus
• Reliable and predictable availability
• Shanghai based

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Jump Trading's Post Trade Analytics Team plays a crucial role in measuring and optimizing performance and trade execution across all global markets where the firm operates. This team is responsible for developing, operating, and maintaining performance measurement solutions, as well as conducting a wide range of post-trade analyses for various departments, including trading, business development, and other central teams. Daily, the team's core infrastructure collects, organizes, and stores billions of data points related to trading performance.

This role offers the opportunity to develop both business and technical expertise while significantly contributing to our global post trade analytics effort. We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer with 3+ years of experience to work closely with our Shanghai team, building and maintaining sophisticated datasets and data pipelines that will shape the way we trade.

What you’ll do:

• Build, operate, and maintain complex datasets and end-to-end dataset pipelines for analytics and research use cases.
• Partner directly with traders, quantitative researchers and data scientists to understand data requirements and deliver reliable data products in both real-time and next-day environments.
• Ensure data quality and reliability through validation frameworks, monitoring, alerting, lineage, and incident response.
• Optimize data processing and workflows for performance, cost, and robustness; troubleshoot pipeline failures and production issues.
• Maintain and improve associated internal tools, documentation, and operational runbooks.

Skills you’ll need:

• At least 3+ years’ experience as a Data Engineer
• Proficient in Python development, DevOps, and Linux environments.
• Proven expertise building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines (including orchestration, scheduling, and dependency management).
• Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases, including schema design and query optimization.
• Familiarity with SQL and data analytics tools and libraries, such as Pandas and NumPy.
• C++ experience is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Other Duties as assigned and needed.
• Reliable and predictable availability.
• Shanghai based

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Our Production Engineering team is a global team that supports Jump’s diverse global trading infrastructure that operates across many global traditional and crypto financial markets. The team is responsible for everything from low level infrastructure to custom applications, making heavy use of both internally developed and open-source software.  We are looking for someone who loves learning new cutting-edge technologies and getting their hands dirty to solve challenging technical problems. 

What you’ll do: 

• Help build, manage, and maintain a sophisticated validator infrastructure and tooling for one of the world’s top proprietary trading firms.
• Working with software that is bleeding-edge and doing interesting things (consensus algorithms, distributed systems, cryptography) which often presents challenging technical problems.
• Take responsibility for a wide range of on-chain infrastructure, including validators, light clients, and RPC nodes.
• Improve monitoring and alerting systems for crypto infrastructure which enable quick and effective problem resolution.
• Experiment with the newest technologies and keep abreast of new developments in the blockchain ecosystem.
• Reason about and improve the security properties of infrastructure. Secure key management, server hardening, intrusion detection, and security best practices are important themes.
• Contribute to external partnerships that directly impact Jump’s bottom line.
• Engagement in public forums for community awareness and knowledge transfer. 
• Work with a globally distributed team to maintain high availability.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills you’ll need: 

• A passion for blockchain technology and an insatiable desire to learn.
• Willingness to move quickly, work in a flat, fast-paced team and juggle competing priorities.
• Previous experience with managing proof-of-stake blockchain infrastructure, preferably on Solana or Ethereum.
• A deep understanding of software engineering principles, Linux, Kubernetes, monitoring/alerting (Prometheus/Alertmanager), networking, and experience across both cloud-based and bare-metal infrastructure.
• Prior experience with a range of orchestration and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, and Salt).
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complex systems.
• Familiarity with on-chain trading, DeFi, and risk management is preferred, but not required.
• High proficiency with bash scripting, and experience in at least one other programming language. Popular languages at Jump are Python, Golang and Rust.
• Reliable and predictable availability.