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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

Jump's Trading Infrastructure team is responsible for the datacenters, networks and supporting systems that power both Jump's global low latency environment and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.  In this role you’ll have an opportunity to work with the latest in server, network and storage technology such as high-density cabinets and liquid cooling.  You’ll also exist in a capacity that will allow project ownership from start to finish.

What You Will Do:

• Maintain data center infrastructure (power, cooling, hardware, cabling, tools/supplies, etc.). to provide maximum availability of services.
• Perform requirements gathering and planning for new hardware installs (i.e. physical location, power and cooling requirements, cabling, etc.).
• Install and configure data center infrastructure components (cabinets, power strips, structured cabling, etc.).
• Racking and cabling of data center hardware (servers, network equipment, storage devices, etc.).
• Hardware troubleshooting and break-fix.
• Initial configuration of network devices and Linux servers (Linux cli commands, switch cli commands, zero-touch-provisioning).
• Develop and maintain documentation.
• Interface directly with colocation providers and hardware vendors (questions, issues or new requests).
• Manage onsite contractors as needed (provide tasks, validate work, etc.).
• Shipping and receiving of equipment.
• Maintain inventory (serialized assets and consumables).
• Perform capacity planning activities within the Data Center (space, cooling, power, cabling plant).
• Occasional travel to other data centers/Jump offices.

Skills & Education Required:

• At least three years Data Center experience.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Meet physical requirements of the job (working on ladders/elevated platforms, ability to lift up to 50 lbs.)
• Knowledge of cabling standards/media types and ability to manage cables to an extremely high standard.
• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure (electrical/power, cooling, liquid cooling, mechanicals, safety, etc.).
• Availability to work evenings and weekends as required.
• Hardware repair experience (data center infra, servers, network devices, storage devices, etc.).
• Ability to understand basic network designs and topologies.
• Experience using/configuring Cisco and Arista devices via CLI.
• Experience working at the command line of Linux systems doing basic system troubleshooting and running scripts.
• Experience programming (such as in Python) a plus.
• Excellent written/verbal communication, time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work well as part of global team in a fast-paced environment.
• Extremely high personal standards for work quality.
• Reliable and predicable availability.

Benefits include:

• Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits

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.

We’re expanding our global connectivity infrastructure team and seeking a Network Transport Architect to join our Production Infrastructure group. This role focuses on designing, acquiring, and optimizing the low latency, high-capacity networks that power our global trading operations. While primarily focused on our connectivity landscape, you'll collaborate with teams internationally to build mission-critical infrastructure. You'll be responsible for everything from vendor engagement to implementing cutting-edge transport technologies in an environment requiring ultra-low latency, where excellence is the standard. 

 
What You'll Do:

• Capacity Planning & Acquisition: 
  • Collaborate with vendors, carriers, and other partners to acquire network capacity and circuits (e.g., dark fiber, wavelengths, leased lines) that meet business requirements. 
  • Negotiate contracts and terms with providers to balance cost and operational performance. 
  • Stay informed about market trends and emerging technologies to recommend suitable options for network expansion or upgrades. 
• Network Planning & Design Support: 
  • Assist in planning and designing robust wide-area network infrastructure that supports global connectivity needs. 
  • Provide input on network architecture and strategy to meet business and operational goals. 
  • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between business needs and technical solutions. 
• Project Management for Delivery: 
  • Oversee the delivery process for circuits and connectivity solutions, managing timelines, dependencies, and risks. 
  • Coordinate with internal teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of projects. 
  • Track project milestones, troubleshoot delays, and ensure proper handovers to operations teams. 
• Industry Engagement & Networking: 
  • Build and maintain relationships with carriers, vendors, industry experts, and other key players in the networking and telecom sectors. 
  • Participate in conferences, industry events, and seminars to stay informed about new technologies, trends, and market shifts. 
  • Leverage professional networks and industry insights to identify new opportunities for the organization to improve its connectivity footprint. 
• Regulatory Compliance & Vendor Evaluation: 
  • Ensure compliance with regional and global regulatory requirements for circuits and networking systems. 
  • Evaluate and recommend new vendors and solutions based on performance criteria, cost, and alignment with organizational goals. 
• Additional duties as required or needed.  

Skills You'll Need: 

• At least 7 years of experience required in network architecture, transport technologies, and carrier/vendor management, with proven expertise in acquiring and implementing low-latency connectivity solutions for mission-critical environments. 
• Strong understanding of wide-area and global networks, transport technologies, and capacity planning for high-performance connectivity. 
• Familiarity with optical networking and transmission systems (e.g., wavelengths, DWDM, dark fiber). 
• Proficiency in tools for network planning, performance evaluation, and reporting. 
• Familiarity with RF technologies, wireless systems, and point-to-point microwave networks is a plus but not essential. 
• Proven experience coordinating end-to-end delivery of connectivity or capacity projects, ensuring timelines, budgets, and stakeholder expectations are met. 
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to effectively manage multiple tasks and prioritize competing demands. 
• Well-networked within the telecom industry with established relationships across a multitude of providers. 
• Awareness of industry trends, emerging technologies, and shifts in the connectivity and telecom landscape. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and the ability to work efficiently in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. 
• Reliable and predictable availability; including the ability to travel up to 25%, and occasionally up to 50% during key project phases. 

HPC Data Center Production Engineer
Location: Chicago or New York (On-site 5 days/week)
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.
Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.
We are looking for an HPC Data Center Production Engineer to build and own the automation and tooling that powers Jump's HPC data center operations. This is a development-heavy role focused on automating the onboarding and lifecycle management of data center hardware—servers, switches, rack PDUs, CDUs, and environmental sensors—and building tools for capacity planning, outage simulation, monitoring, and metrics integration. You will work hand-in-hand with the HPC Planning, Engineering, and Operations leads to turn tooling and monitoring vision into production-ready systems. Heavy, daily use of AI tools is expected to accelerate development and raise the quality bar on everything you build.
What You'll Do:
Hardware Onboarding Automation

• Design, develop, and maintain automation to onboard new hardware devices into Jump's HPC data centers, including servers, network switches, rack PDUs, CDUs, and environmental sensors.

• Build end-to-end provisioning workflows that take hardware from racked-and-cabled through discovery, configuration, validation, and production-ready state with minimal manual intervention.

• Extend and adapt onboarding automation as new hardware platforms and device types are introduced.
  Data Center Tooling Development

• Develop tools for power and cooling capacity planning—enabling the operations and planning teams to model current utilization, forecast growth, and identify constraints before they become problems.

• Build outage simulation tooling to model the impact of power, cooling, or network failures across HPC facilities and validate redundancy/failover configurations.

• Develop and maintain operational tooling that supports day-to-day data center workflows such as hardware lifecycle tracking, data center inventory/spares, change management, and diagnostics.
  Monitoring & Metrics Integration

• Build and maintain monitoring integrations for HPC data center infrastructure—pulling telemetry from servers, switches, PDUs, CDUs, environmental sensors, and facility systems into centralized observability platforms.

• Integrate metrics feeds from colocation and data center providers into Jump's monitoring stack, normalizing data for alerting and capacity reporting.

• Work with the Operations Lead to implement the monitoring and alerting strategy, translating requirements into deployed, production-grade instrumentation.
  Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work very closely with the HPC Planning, Engineering, and Operations leads to understand tooling and monitoring needs and bring their vision to fruition.

• Partner with HPC Engineering on integration points between data center automation and compute/storage/network provisioning systems.

• Translate operational pain points and manual processes into automated, maintainable solutions.
  Systems Maintenance & Reliability

• Own the reliability and lifecycle of all systems and tools you develop—monitor for failures, respond to issues, and iterate based on operational feedback.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for all tooling, automation workflows, and integrations.

• Participate in large, coordinated maintenance operations, including during evenings and weekends.
  AI-Driven Development

• Use AI tools daily across all aspects of the role: writing and reviewing code, analyzing data, debugging, generating documentation, and accelerating development velocity.

• Identify opportunities to apply AI to data center operations problems—anomaly detection, predictive capacity planning, intelligent alerting, and beyond.
  Additional duties as assigned or needed.
  Skills You'll Need:

• 5+ years of professional experience in production engineering, infrastructure automation, or site reliability engineering, preferably in HPC or large-scale data center environments.

• Proven track record of building and shipping production automation and tooling—not just scripts, but maintained, reliable systems.

• Experience automating hardware provisioning and lifecycle management (servers, network devices, power/cooling infrastructure).

• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure: power distribution, cooling systems (air and liquid), environmental monitoring, and structured cabling.

• Experience integrating with hardware management interfaces (IPMI/BMC/Redfish, SNMP, vendor APIs) for discovery, configuration, and telemetry collection.

• Demonstrates a high level of energy, results driven, and able to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
  Technical Skills:

• High proficiency in Golang and at least one additional language (e.g., Python). You will write a lot of code in this role.

• Strong Linux systems knowledge—you should live in Linux. Proficient with system administration, networking, storage, process management, log analysis, and troubleshooting at the OS level.

• Experience with Grafana for building dashboards, alerting, and visualization of infrastructure metrics. Experience with Prometheus, InfluxDB, or similar observability platforms and building custom integrations/exporters.

• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools (SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, or similar).

• Solid understanding of networking concepts: L2/L3 protocols, VLANs, BGP, SNMP, and switch/router configuration (Arista, Cisco).

• Experience with APIs and data integration—consuming vendor APIs, normalizing heterogeneous data sources, building data pipelines for metrics and reporting.

• Experience with ClickHouse and MySQL—writing queries, designing schemas, and building tooling that reads from and writes to these databases.

• Experience with GitHub for version control, code review, CI/CD workflows, and collaborative development.

• Demonstrated heavy use of AI tools (e.g., LLM-based coding assistants, AI-driven analytics) in a professional setting. You should already be using AI daily and be eager to push its application further.

• A compulsion to perform root cause analysis.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work across a global engineering team.

• Extremely high personal standards for work quality.

• Reliable and predictable availability, including ability to work evenings and weekends as required.

• Bachelor's degree preferred.

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's infrastructure team is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build, and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colocation design and implementation, to optimizing exchange connectivity, to building low-latency wide area networks and world-class HPC research clusters, we leverage research and automation to consistently innovate and scale our infrastructure to drive our trading and evolving business.

We are looking for an experienced Electrical Engineer to lead the electrical engineering design and oversight of Jump's mission-critical HPC data center infrastructure. This role takes responsible charge of power system design, from medium voltage distribution through high-density rack-level delivery, across new builds, expansions, and ongoing operations. You will establish electrical design standards, perform engineer-of-record duties, and work closely with mechanical, structural, and technology teams to ensure integrated, resilient system design for our high-performance computing environments.

What You'll Do:

Electrical System Design & Standards
- Lead the electrical engineering design for Jump's critical HPC data center infrastructure projects, taking responsible charge for overall project delivery and technical excellence.
- Design/Review plans for  complex power systems including generator plants, medium voltage distribution, uninterruptible power systems, automatic transfer systems, and redundant power architectures for mission-critical facilities.
- Develop initial electrical system concepts and establish design standards, specifications, and criteria for data center projects.
- Perform calculations, equipment selection, equipment specification, system design, and system layout for high-density computing environments.
- Produce high-quality technical deliverables including drawings, specifications, and reports consistent with Jump requirements and industry standards.

Engineer of Record & QA/QC
- Perform Engineer of Record duties and assume responsible charge for electrical discipline deliverables.
- Serve as engineer of record for electrical power striping from RPPs/busways to device cabinets, ensuring correct phase balancing, circuit allocation, and redundancy across high-density HPC environments.
- Participate in QA/QC processes and technical reviews of work produced by team members and external partners.
- Conduct due diligence reports, gap analyses, and feasibility studies for new data center sites and expansions.

Project & Team Leadership
- Lead multi-discipline project teams and coordinate with mechanical, structural, and technology teams to ensure integrated system design.
- Establish and manage project budgets, schedules, and resource allocation for assigned projects.
- Mentor and train junior engineers while providing technical leadership and guidance.

Construction & Field Operations
- Perform field investigations, construction administration, and commissioning oversight.
- Process and review RFIs, change orders, bulletins, and addenda during construction phases.
- Evaluate existing site conditions and provide detailed assessment reports.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management
- Interface with colocation providers, contractors, equipment vendors, and manufacturers throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support business development activities and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.

AI-Driven Engineering
- Use AI tools daily to accelerate design work, perform calculations, analyze power data, draft documentation, and improve engineering workflows.
- Identify opportunities to apply AI across electrical design and operational processes.

Codes, Standards & Continuing Education
- Maintain current knowledge of electrical codes, industry standards, and emerging technologies relevant to data center design.
- Stay current with LEED principles and their application to data center environments.

Additional duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You'll Need:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineering with electrical building systems emphasis from an accredited university.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
- EIT credential required if PE not yet obtained.
- Minimum 7+ years experience designing electrical systems for mission-critical facilities, data centers, or high-performance computing environments, preferably in a consulting or end-user engineering capacity.
- Proven track record as lead project engineer capable of directing technical teams and managing complex projects.
- Experience interacting with clients, contractors, architects, and cross-functional project teams.
- Demonstrates a high level of energy, results driven, and able to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to interface with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong project management skills including proposal writing, budget management, and stakeholder relations.
- Attention to detail, highly organized, self-starter with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Technical Skills:

- Expert knowledge of electrical systems including medium/low voltage distribution, emergency power systems, UPS systems, and grounding.
- Experience with data center-specific requirements including redundancy levels (N, N+1, 2N), concurrent maintainability, fault tolerance, and high-density power distribution.
- Proficiency with Revit and AutoCAD MEP for electrical design and Building Information Modeling (BIM).
- Ability to read and review floor plans, sections, elevations, and visualize systems in 3D space.
- Strong working knowledge of electrical codes and standards (NEC, NFPA, IEEE).
- Understanding of LEED principles and their application to data center environments.
- Programming/scripting experience (Python preferred) is a plus.
- Demonstrated heavy use of AI tools (e.g., LLM-based assistants, AI-driven analytics) in a professional setting. You should already be using AI daily and be eager to push its application further.
- Extremely high personal standards for work quality.
- Reliable and predictable availability, including the ability to work evenings and weekends as required.

HPC Infrastructure Planner Lead

Location: Chicago or New York (On-site 5 days/week)

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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

We are looking for an experienced HPC Infrastructure Planner Lead to oversee the full portfolio of infrastructure projects across our high-performance computing environment. In this role, you will own project prioritization and reporting, manage contractor relationships and schedules, and support new data center lease efforts. While this is a leadership and planning-focused position, you must also be able to step in and directly plan and drive projects when needed. If you have a strong background in infrastructure project planning, vendor and contractor management, and working in fast-paced global teams, join us to lead the delivery of world-class infrastructure solutions.

What You'll Do:

Project Portfolio Management

• Oversee and manage the full portfolio of HPC infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with business priorities and timely delivery.

• Drive prioritization of infrastructure projects based on business impact, resource availability, and technical dependencies.

• Step in to directly plan and execute infrastructure projects as needed, including scoping, scheduling, resource allocation, and stakeholder coordination.

Reporting & Visibility

• Provide high-level project reporting and status updates to leadership, maintaining visibility into progress, risks, and resource needs across all active projects.

Contractor & Vendor Management

• Manage contractor relationships end-to-end, including contract negotiations, schedule coordination, performance oversight, and relationship management.

• Work with major IT vendors to troubleshoot and resolve implementation and operational issues.

Data Center Planning & Lease Support

• Assist with new data center lease evaluations, including space planning, power requirements, and facility readiness assessments.

• Oversee the successful implementation of new compute, storage, and network infrastructure within HPC environments.

AI-Driven Planning

• Must actively use AI tools in day-to-day work to drive efficiency in project planning, reporting, analysis, and operational workflows. AI fluency is a core expectation of this role.

Additional duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You'll Need:

• Significant experience managing infrastructure projects in HPC or large-scale data center environments.

• Proven ability to oversee multiple concurrent projects and prioritize effectively based on business needs.

• Experience managing contractors and vendors, including contract oversight, schedule management, and performance accountability.

• Strong understanding of data center operations, including space planning, power, cooling, and structured cabling.

• Familiarity with HPC infrastructure, including compute, storage, and high-performance networking (InfiniBand, Ethernet).

• Experience with project planning tools and methodologies for infrastructure deployments.

• Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology, and processes.

• Good judgment, ability to evaluate short and long-term impact, and confidence to select and execute decisions when required and take full responsibility for end results.

• Demonstrates a high level of energy, results driven, and able to work under pressure with tight deadlines.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to provide clear project reporting to leadership and work across a global engineering team.

Technical Skills:

• Experience planning and operating high-density/HPC data center environments, including power, cooling, space, and structured cabling considerations.

• Strong understanding of networking concepts, configuration, and troubleshooting. A qualification like CCNA is great; equivalent experience is also fine.

• Experience working at the command line of Linux systems, including system administration and troubleshooting.

• Proficiency with scripting languages (such as Python) for automation and operational efficiency.

• Extremely high personal standards for work quality.

• Reliable and predictable availability.

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field preferred.

HPC Infrastructure Operations Lead

Location: Chicago or New York (On-site 5 days/week; regular travel to HPC data center sites 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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

Jump's HPC infrastructure powers some of the most demanding computational workloads in the industry. As our HPC footprint grows, we need a seasoned operations leader to own the reliability, standards, and day-to-day excellence of these environments. This role leads the teams that keep the lights on across Jump's HPC data centers, ensuring maximum uptime through disciplined operations, proactive maintenance, and deep technical expertise in critical facility systems. Heavy, daily use of AI tools is expected in this role—to accelerate decision-making, automate operational workflows, analyze data center telemetry, and continuously raise the bar on how the team operates.

What You'll Do:

Team Leadership & Organizational Ownership
- Lead and manage data center site leads and their teams across multiple HPC facilities; site leads report directly to this role.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop team members while conducting performance reviews and building a culture of operational rigor.
- Direct onsite contractors by providing clear scope and validating completed work.

HPC Data Center Standards, Processes & Preventative Maintenance
- Develop, document, and enforce operational standards and procedures for Jump's HPC data centers covering power, cooling, cabling, and hardware lifecycle.
- Design and own the preventative maintenance program, including scheduled inspections, component replacements, and firmware/capacity reviews to minimize unplanned downtime.
- Drive continuous improvement of operational processes and pursue automation—including AI-driven approaches—to reduce manual effort and human error.

Critical Facility Systems Expertise
- Serve as the subject matter authority on HPC data center power distribution, power striping strategies, and failover/redundancy configurations.
- Own expertise across air cooling, liquid cooling (direct-to-chip, rear-door, CDU-based), and hybrid cooling architectures.
- Maintain deep knowledge of environmental monitoring and controls (temperature, humidity, airflow, leak detection) and ensure systems remain within design parameters.

Monitoring & Incident Response
- Own the HPC data center monitoring strategy end-to-end: define what is monitored, set alerting thresholds, and ensure comprehensive visibility into facility and hardware health.
- Leverage AI tools to analyze telemetry data, identify failure patterns, predict potential issues, and accelerate root cause analysis during incidents.
- Lead critical incident response and drive root cause analysis and corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Establish and track operational KPIs including availability, mean time to repair, and efficiency metrics.

Server & Switch Hardware Expertise
- Maintain deep, hands-on knowledge of server hardware architectures including multi-socket platforms, GPU/accelerator configurations, memory subsystems, NVMe/storage controllers, BMC/IPMI management, and firmware lifecycle.
- Maintain deep, hands-on knowledge of network switch hardware including line cards, optics/transceivers, switch fabrics, and platform-specific diagnostics for Arista and Cisco platforms.
- Evaluate new hardware platforms, drive hardware qualification and acceptance testing, and provide informed recommendations on hardware selection.

Hardware Break-Fix
- Own the overall hardware break-fix function across all HPC sites, ensuring rapid diagnosis and resolution for servers, GPUs, network equipment, storage, and facility infrastructure.
- Diagnose complex hardware failures at the component level—CPUs, DIMMs, GPUs, NICs, PSUs, fans, drives, switch line cards, and optics—and direct the team to resolve efficiently.
- Establish escalation paths, SLA targets, and reporting for hardware failures.

Inventory & Spares Management
- Own inventory processes and spares tracking across all HPC facilities, ensuring critical spares are stocked, tracked, and replenished to meet availability targets.
- Maintain accurate asset records for all serialized and consumable inventory.

Planning, Vendor & Budget Management
- Conduct capacity planning for space, power, cooling, and cabling to stay ahead of growth.
- Gather requirements and plan new hardware installations including physical placement, power/cooling needs, and cabling.
- Manage relationships with colocation providers and hardware vendors; negotiate contracts and SLAs.
- Develop and manage operational budgets for equipment, staffing, and facilities.

Networking & Linux
- Possess strong working knowledge of networking concepts including L2/L3 protocols, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, LACP, ECMP, and high-performance fabrics relevant to HPC environments.
- Understand network architectures such as spine-leaf, fat-tree, and high-radix topologies used in HPC clusters.
- Maintain strong Linux systems knowledge—comfortable navigating and troubleshooting at the OS level, including storage, networking, process management, log analysis, and system diagnostics.

AI-Driven Operations
- Use AI tools daily across all aspects of the role: writing and reviewing documentation, analyzing operational data, drafting procedures, managing communications, and problem-solving.
- Champion AI adoption within the team—set the expectation that every team member integrates AI into their daily workflows.
- Identify and implement opportunities where AI can replace or augment manual operational processes.

Cross-Team Partnership
- Partner with HPC Engineering, Network Engineering, and other teams to align operations with research and business needs.
- Ensure compliance with all safety, security, and regulatory requirements.

Travel
- Travel regularly to Jump's HPC data center sites for operational oversight, project execution, and team engagement. This is a core requirement of the role.

Additional duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You'll Need:

- Minimum 7+ years of data center operations experience with at least 3 years leading teams in 24/7 critical infrastructure environments. HPC environment experience strongly preferred.
- In-depth knowledge of data center power systems, power distribution/striping, and failover/redundancy architectures.
- In-depth knowledge of cooling technologies including air cooling, liquid cooling (direct-to-chip, rear-door heat exchangers, CDUs), and environmental control systems.
- Proven experience building and maintaining preventative maintenance programs and operational standards/procedures.
- Strong experience with data center monitoring platforms (DCIM, BMS, environmental sensors) and defining monitoring/alerting strategies.
- Demonstrates a high level of energy, results driven, and able to work under pressure with tight deadlines.

Technical Skills:

- Deep knowledge of server hardware architectures: multi-socket platforms, GPU/accelerator systems, memory subsystems, NVMe storage, BMC/IPMI, and firmware management.
- Deep knowledge of network switch hardware: line cards, optics/transceivers, switch fabrics, and platform diagnostics across Arista and Cisco platforms.
- Proven hardware break-fix experience with the ability to diagnose failures at the component level (CPUs, DIMMs, GPUs, NICs, PSUs, drives, line cards, optics).
- Strong understanding of networking concepts: L2/L3 protocols, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, LACP, ECMP, and HPC network topologies (spine-leaf, fat-tree).
- Strong Linux systems proficiency—well beyond basic CLI usage. Comfortable with OS-level troubleshooting, storage and network configuration, process management, log analysis, and system diagnostics.
- Experience managing inventory and spares programs for critical infrastructure.
- Structured cabling standards expertise.
- Programming/scripting experience (Python preferred) is a plus.
- Demonstrated heavy use of AI tools (e.g., LLM-based assistants, AI coding tools, AI-driven analytics) in a professional setting. You should already be using AI daily and be eager to push its application further across operations.
- Strong project management skills with multi-site infrastructure deployment experience.
- Knowledge of industry standards including ASHRAE and TIA-942.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Meet physical requirements including working on ladders/elevated platforms and lifting up to 50 lbs.
- Extremely high personal standards for work quality and operational discipline.
- Reliable and predictable availability, including ability to work evenings and weekends as required.
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly to data center sites.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.

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.

As a Data Strategist within our Data Strategy Group, you will be part of a team that is responsible for finding, validating and increasing the overall awareness and effectiveness of external datasets as it relates to trading at Jump. The ideal candidate will thrive in connecting business objectives with data-driven solutions, ensuring data is leveraged effectively to deliver insights, drive alpha, and sustain a competitive advantage. For this role, we are looking for someone to own and evolve our broker data relationships as well as support our macro-sourcing efforts.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and evolve Jump’s broker data landscape. Serve as the primary point of contact for a network of brokers and research providers, managing and growing those relationships to maximize value from each partnership.
• Lead end‑to‑end discovery, evaluation, commercial negotiation, and onboarding of new broker datasets, coordinating closely with Legal, Compliance, Technology, and investment teams.
• Contribute to a broader understanding of the sell‑side landscape, including emerging content offerings, product updates, and market developments.
• Support the macro sourcing efforts by working directly with researchers and other members of the Data Strategy team to translate their needs into concrete data requirements and communicate dataset availability, scope, and limitations.
• Leverage your data domain expertise and technical skills to perform in-depth assessments of data sets with a focus on data integrity, coverage and differentiation.
• Create and cultivate relationships with vendors to proactively identify and capitalize on emerging data opportunities that drive strategic advantages.

Skills You'll Need:

• 8–10+ years of experience in a data‑driven role within a hedge fund, asset manager, bank, or data/analytics provider.
• Strong understanding of global financial markets, with a particular interest in macro and multi‑asset trading.
• Direct exposure to broker data and research products (e.g., estimates, flow data, research content, macroeconomic or policy data).
• Proven ability to manage external relationships and navigate commercial, licensing, and usage rights discussions.
• Hands‑on experience working with complex datasets and technical delivery mechanisms (APIs, SFTP, data platforms, entitlements).
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills to work effectively across multiple business units within the firm.
• Excellent communication skills and a track record of partnering effectively with both investment and technology teams.
• Highly organized, entrepreneurial mindset, with comfort owning initiatives end‑to‑end in a fast‑paced environment.

If you’re excited about shaping how a leading quantitative trading firm discovers and uses broker and macro data — and you enjoy working with both data and people — we’d be excited to meet you.

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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

Being part of our Network Infrastructure Team, you'll get a chance to work on one of the highest performance networks in class with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We are looking for exceptional talent to help us take our infrastructure to the next level.

What You'll Do:

• Design, configure and support our global network infrastructure, collaborating across multiple teams to optimize for proprietary low latency trading applications.

• Support and troubleshoot a hybrid wireless and wired high performance network environment

• Take an automated, data driven approach to diagnosing and solving complex network infrastructure issues such as micro-bursting, jitter and queuing.

• Leverage automation skills and take a “dev ops” approach to improve efficiency of network management, deployment and maintenance of propriety trading applications.

• Own and project manage global network initiatives from requirements gathering, design review, implementation, deployment and documentation

• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You'll Need:

• At least 5+ years of networking experience

• At least 1+ year of scripting experience (Python preferred) and expertise with GIT and REST or JSON

• Experience supporting a large-scale global network environment

• Advance knowledge and troubleshooting of IP networking, TCP/ IP

• Advance knowledge of Switching, Routing (BGP, OSPF) and Multicast (IGMP, PIM)

• Experience working with one or more of the following hardware platforms (Cisco, Mellanox, Arista) 

• Experience working with automation tools (ie, Ansible)

• Experience with databases and big data tools (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Splunk, InfluxDB, Grafana).

• Experience with monitoring tools (i.e. Icinga, Splunk, Kapacitor).

• Strong Linux Shell (all utilities) experience

• Strong written and verbal communication skills 

• Proven ability operating in a fast paced environment

• Collaborative approach to complex problem solving, with a positive can-do attitude.

• Reliable and predictable availability

• CCIE certification or equivalent experience

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in Information Technology)

• Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes

Jump Trading Group is committed to operational excellence. We empower exceptional IT professionals to build and maintain world-class infrastructure that supports our global operations. 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, we design, develop, and deploy technologies that enable our business operations across the globe.

Production Infrastructure is a global organization of engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From campus network design and implementation, to optimizing application delivery, to building resilient Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our evolving business needs.

Being part of our Network Infrastructure Team, you'll get a chance to work on enterprise-class networks with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We are looking for exceptional talent to help us take our infrastructure to the next level.

What You'll Do:

• Design, configure and support our global enterprise network infrastructure, collaborating across multiple teams to optimize application performance and user experience.
• Support and troubleshoot a hybrid wireless and wired enterprise network environment serving thousands of users globally
• Manage and optimize network application delivery platforms including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, and HAProxy load balancers
• Optimize performance for both internal enterprise applications and internet-facing services, ensuring exceptional end-user experience across all platforms
• Utilize advanced packet capture analysis (Wireshark) and automated, data-driven approaches to diagnose and resolve complex network issues including latency, packet loss, and application performance degradation
• Implement and maintain Quality of Service (QoS) policies to ensure optimal performance for critical business applications
• Own and project manage global network initiatives from requirements gathering, design review, implementation, deployment and documentation
• Monitor and optimize network application performance across the enterprise
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

• Experience supporting large-scale global enterprise network environments
• Advanced knowledge and troubleshooting of IP networking, TCP/IP
• Advanced knowledge of Switching, Routing (BGP, OSPF) and Multicast (IGMP, PIM)
• Strong experience with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops infrastructure
• Strong Linux MacOs Windows network troubleshooting experience
• Hands-on experience with HAProxy or similar load balancing technologies
• Expert-level packet capture analysis skills using Wireshark or similar tools
• Deep understanding of network application performance monitoring and optimization
• Experience implementing and managing QoS policies in enterprise environments
• Experience working with one or more of the following hardware platforms (Cisco, Arista, Juniper)
• Experience with scripting languages (Python/Powershell preferred) and expertise with GIT
• Experience working with automation tools (i.e., Ansible, Terraform)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability operating in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborative approach to complex problem solving, with a positive can-do attitude
• Reliable and predictable availability

Minimum Requirements:

• At least 5+ years of enterprise networking experience
• At least 2+ years of experience with Citrix environments
• At least 1+ year of scripting experience
• CCNP certification or equivalent experience (CCIE preferred)
• Bachelor's Degree (preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field)
• Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes

Benefits include:

• Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits

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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

We are looking for exceptional talent that can work closely and collaborate effectively across multiple teams spread around the globe and continue to take our infrastructure to the next level.

What You'll Do:

• Work in a hybrid Systems Engineer / Software Developer capacity on Jump’s internal systems that manage the global infrastructure and colocation footprint
• Architect, build and maintain streaming monitoring tooling, high performance / real-time packet and flow analysis systems, configuration management and automation frameworks
• Take an ops-first approach, focusing on improving quality of the platforms for the wider team and always strive to identify improvements and opportunities for further make us more efficient
• Identify opportunities to make services more efficient and resilient by designing alerting and observability around team and business requirements
• Do deep-dive debugging sessions on low-level performance issues in complex software stacks
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

• 5+ years experience with Python, Go
• Strong experience with Linux
• Knowledge of streaming systems architecture and design
• Message/streaming queues (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Rust, C/C++
• Experience with big data / columnar style data stores (Bigtable, Clickhouse, Cassandra) and time series databases
• Experience working with version control and CI/CD systems.
• App deployment management and lifecycle (CI/CD, Kubernetes, pods/containers)
• Proven knowledge of working on infrastructure challenges in a reliability capacity
• Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes
• Reliable and predictable availability

Bonus skills:

• Experience with Rust
• Prior exposure to Arista or Cisco hardware
• Routing protocol knowledge
• Prior network design knowledge

Benefits include:

• Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits

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.

We are looking for an adaptable hands-on individual, passionate about the details and nuances of managing Linux HPC environments at scale, and eager to tackle complex and unpredictable operational work as their primary job function.

What You'll Do:

• Provide front-line operational support for 24/7 Linux HPC compute, storage, and interconnects. Technologies involved include RDMA fabrics, parallel filesystems, HPC batch schedulers, FUSE filesystems, internal Jump software, multi-vendor hardware, cybersecurity requirements, a challenging and unpredictable client workload, and high user expectations
• Solve problem reports and questions posed by members of Jump's research community, escalating as needed and managing the entire problem lifecycle
• Respond to alerts in a timely fashion
• Participate in large, coordinated maintenance operations, including during evenings and weekends
• Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure
• Write code for diagnosing, resolving, and triaging difficult problems and automating frequently performed tasks
• Collaborate with team members and across teams to write code and testing infrastructures spanning both new and existing codebases in multiple programming languages
• Manage relationships with outside vendors, including traveling both domestically and internationally to meet with current and potential vendors
• Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems
• Develop and improve systems and user documentation
• Develop and monitor the tools used to maintain a production computing environment
• Provide operational support as primary job function
• Adhere to all company cybersecurity and IT policies, including performing all work using only approved hardware and software
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Other duties as assigned or needed
• Work from company office an average of 5 days a week
• Must be willing to work a maintenance window of either Friday evening or Saturday morning

Skills You'll Need:

• A desire for operational work as primary job function
• 2+ years of professional experience with Linux systems
• 2+ years professional experience working with High performance computing (HPC), including parallel filesystems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS), batch systems (e.g., Slurm, Grid Engine), and high-performance network interconnects experience is a plus, but not required
• High proficiency with at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, C) and ability to learn additional languages quickly
• Ability to perform root cause analysis
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with both coworkers and third-party vendors
• Strong collaboration skills with a willingness to undertake tasks of various technologies and complexities
• Ability to independently manage complex projects and multiple workstreams
• Strong sense of urgency
• Willingness to perform regular operational maintenance work during evenings and weekends and as needed
• Ability to work effectively in a busy, open floor plan office environment
• Reliable and predictable availability

This role will sit onsite in Chicago, IL. 

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 global High Performance Computing Team is looking to add a Production Engineer in our Chicago office. The scale of our computing environments provides unique challenges in providing good performance and reliability. Several systems including compute, scheduling, networks, and large-scale data storage must integrate seamlessly to support data pipelines and quantitative research. The ideal candidate would be a hands-on individual, highly skilled in the details and nuances of managing Linux environments with a strong software development background necessary to support uniquely customized systems at scale. 

What You'll Do:

• Design, implement, maintain, and support high performance compute and storage systems
• Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems
• Monitor systems and storage performance, up to and including network components
• Build tooling to compile, package, install, and upgrade software and operating system components at scale
• Collaborate with team members and across teams to write code and testing infrastructures spanning both new and existing codebases in multiple programming languages
• Develop and improve systems and user documentation
• Participate in large, coordinated maintenance operations, including during evenings and weekends.
• Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure
• Collaborate directly with researchers to optimize their use of HPC infrastructure
• Develop and monitor the tools used to maintain a production computing environment
• Provide operational support on a rotating basis and as needed
• Manage relationships with outside vendors, including traveling both domestically and internationally to meet with current and potential vendors
• Adhere to all company cybersecurity and IT policies, including performing all work using only approved hardware and software Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You'll Need:

• 5+ years of professional experience in high performance computing (HPC), including parallel filesystems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS), batch systems (e.g., Slurm, Grid Engine), and high-performance network interconnects experience is a plus, but not required
• 5+ years of experience with Linux systems administration
• High proficiency with at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, C)
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complicated, interdependent, and distributed systems
• Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks (debuggers and profilers)
• Experience with system configuration management tools (SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
• A compulsion to perform root cause analysis
• Reliable and predictable availability 

If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both intern and full-time opportunities.

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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business. We're looking to hire a Hardware Engineer to join our Platforms team and assist with the design and development of novel high speed networking devices.

• Lead definition of PCB, chassis, and other deployment form factors for our range of in-house ASICs and off-the-shelf FPGAs.
• System design, schematic capture and PCB layout of high-speed digital devices featuring 10/25GbE and PCIe Gen5.
• Manage relationships with external contract designers and manufacturers
• Develop thermal and power strategy for deployments within many worldwide data centers
• Work with ASIC design team to influence designs
• Specify and oversee characterization of technologically demanding solutions
• Produce documentation and characterization literature
• Interpret high level requirements to create exceptional solutions for the trading community
• Provide mentorship to less experienced members of the team

• A strong understanding of electronics and high speed digital systems
• Direct experience in the following:
  • High Speed PCB design, preferably with Altium Designer.
  • Signal Integrity and Power Integrity techniques
  • Deployment of high-reliability/safety-critical systems
  • Prototype bringup, test and characterization of high speed digital links
  • PCBA production test programme management
• A passion for development, a strong work ethic and the drive to continually learn and improve
• Sound understanding of technology trade-offs, and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
• The ability to work both alone and as part of a small multi-disciplined team
• Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or related subject
• At least 3 years of production design experience

Bonus points:

• Experience in working with RF systems
• Software development skills – Python, C/C++
• RTL development skills for FPGAs – SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL
• Post silicon ASIC validation, characterization and production test suite creation
• Knowledge of semiconductor package design and fabrication processes and workflows

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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

About the Role:

Our Technical Operations Internship is an intensive 10-week experience with our frontline technology teams that are responsible for managing, monitoring, and improving the real-time trading environment at Jump Trading.

You will be working directly with our experienced systems and network engineers, gaining broad technical and operational knowledge across all aspects of the trading platform and technology stack. Our internship program is the primary way we identify top young system engineers for our Technical Operations teams, paving the path toward earning full-time opportunities at Jump.

We are looking for bright and highly motivated individuals that want to grow their knowledge of systems and networking, understanding of modern trading at scale, and practical DevOps-based software engineering skills. 

What You'll Do:

• Tech Ops Intern will work with traders, operations, exchanges, and developers to optimize the trading environment and investigate and solve system issues
• Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment
• Proactively monitor the overall health and performance of the trading platform
• Work closely with our world-class technology organization to:
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking infrastructure issues
• Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low latency trading applications at various data centers throughout the world
• Work closely with risk management and trading teams to coordinate changes and manage incidents
• Manage and assess operational risk of change control into the production environment
• Define and document process and procedure
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You'll Need:

• Major in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field
• Experience working with Linux/UNIX OS including advanced commands and shell scripts
• Practical working knowledge of Python
• Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, ethernet
• A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations
• Ability to operate and communicate clearly under pressure
• Desire to work in a collaborative, team environment with a positive can-do attitude
• Reliable and predictable availability

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.

• Be focused on solving problems via automation first mindset 
• Invest time in R&D and testing to develop innovative, technically demanding, solutions to unique problems facing our team and the company
• Contribute to and lead specific projects to enhance our Windows infrastructure such as:
  • Delivering a best-in-class VDI experience via Citrix Virtual Desktop
  • Enhancing monitoring of new and existing platforms via open source or commercial tools, producing central monitoring dashboards using OSS tools
  • Integrating OS and other Windows applications with other tools used within Jump
  • Be an enthusiastic owner of infrastructure, including taking part in a on-call rotation and working to automate as many tasks as possible
    • Be part of a team responsible for managing Enterprise storage and Backup systems

Skills You'll Need:

• PowerShell and C# development
• Strong knowledge and understanding of virtualisation infrastructure 
• Be familiar with networking fundamentals and basic troubleshooting
• Be comfortable interacting Linux systems as they interact with our team’s technology
• Provide operational support of our users within the region as required
• Willing to operate far outside your comfort zone and existing experience, and ability to be a part in regular sensible risk management decisions (Jump is not a process driven environment)
• Other duties as assigned or needed

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 incentivising 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 organisations and universities to solve problems.

The global security team is a team of technologists that develop and contribute across the full security stack. You will be (or will become) a "T-shaped" individual with enormous potential to further your career in the security domain. The ideal candidate will be passionate about security operations and automation, with experience in more than one (Network security, cloud security, application security). The candidate will have a good ability to automate (using a language such as Python or Go) and understand risk-based approach to security.

What You'll Do:

- Automate processes and procedures to create a highly resilient security infrastructure.

- Implement and make recommendations based on threat assessments at the network, server, and endpoint levels.

- Involved in Threat, Vulnerability Management and Attack Surface reduction exercises.

- Assist in performing investigations of anomalous activity and creating actionable reports to senior management.

- Analyze data sets and produce reports using basic tools (e.g. SQL, Python, Pandas).

- Work highly independently, with multiple stakeholders outside of the formal management structure.

- Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

- Comfort using a programming language for automation tasks (Python, Go, etc).

- Comfort using the Linux shell to understand and troubleshoot an overall system.

- Familiarity troubleshooting network issues in the stack.

- Understand DNS, SSL/ TLS, and how traffic on IP networks establishes end-to-end security and trust.

- Understand principles around secure Identity Management and Authentication.

- Passionate about high-quality of work and continuous improvement.

- Reliable and predictable availability.

Useful (but certainly not mandatory) skills:

- Relevant and well-regarded certifications in cloud computing such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS Professional or          Specialty levels, Google Professional level.

- Advanced security accreditation such as CISSP, OSCP, CASP, Security+.

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 global High Performance Computing Team is looking to add an HPC Production Engineer in our Sydney office. The scale of our computing environments provides unique challenges in providing good performance and reliability. Several systems including compute, scheduling, networks, and large-scale data storage must integrate seamlessly to support data pipelines and quantitative research. The ideal candidate would be a hands-on individual, highly skilled in the details and nuances of managing Linux environments with a strong software development background necessary to support uniquely customized systems at scale. 

What You'll Do:

• Design, implement, maintain, and support high performance compute and storage systems
• Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems
• Monitor systems and storage performance, up to and including network components
• Build tooling to compile, package, install, and upgrade software and operating system components at scale
• Collaborate with team members and across teams to write code and testing infrastructures spanning both new and existing codebases in multiple programming languages
• Develop and improve systems and user documentation
• Participate in large, coordinated maintenance operations, including during evenings and weekends.
• Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure
• Collaborate directly with researchers to optimize their use of HPC infrastructure
• Develop and monitor the tools used to maintain a production computing environment
• Provide operational support on a rotating basis and as needed
• Manage relationships with outside vendors, including traveling both domestically and internationally to meet with current and potential vendors
• Adhere to all company cybersecurity and IT policies, including performing all work using only approved hardware and software Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You'll Need:

• 5+ years of professional experience in high performance computing (HPC), including parallel filesystems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS), batch systems (e.g., Slurm, Grid Engine), and high-performance network interconnects experience is a plus, but not required
• 5+ years of experience with Linux systems administration
• High proficiency with at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, C)
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complicated, interdependent, and distributed systems
• Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks (debuggers and profilers)
• Experience with system configuration management tools (SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
• A compulsion to perform root cause analysis
• Reliable and predictable availability 

If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both intern and full-time opportunities.