Campus Quantitative Trader
Jump Trading
Campus Quantitative Trader
Jump Trading
Trades global markets with quantitative strategies
Jump Trading 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.
About the Role:
At Jump, our people contribute to trading teams in the following roles, or a blend of all three: quant trader, quant researcher, and quant developer. Quant Traders will get training in all of these areas, with a focus in trading and financial markets. You will also participate in mock trading sessions, poker training, and other modules designed to improve probabilistic thinking, risk-taking, and trader mindset.
You will then work alongside our trading teams to devise trading strategies across global markets.
Other duties as assigned or needed.
Who Should Apply?
We are seeking the sharpest analytical minds from top undergraduate and graduate programs.
Ideal candidates will have:
Reliable and predictable availability required.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are encouraged to apply.
Benefits include:
Trades global markets with quantitative strategies
Jump Trading trades its own capital across global financial markets, using quantitative research and automated systems to buy and sell assets. Its strategies range from high-frequency trading to statistical models and discretionary macro investing, spanning equities, options, credit, commodities, futures, and digital assets. Traders, engineers, and researchers develop the models and execution systems together, and the firm earns money from returns on its trading. Its Jump Crypto division also develops open-source blockchain infrastructure, including tools that validate transactions and move information between networks. Founded in 1999, Jump Trading is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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