Job Description
About the role:
The trading internship is an intensive 10-week program designed to enhance your quantitative and programming skills and understanding of financial markets. Our goal is to give you the experience of what it’s like to be a full-time quant trader at Jump.
At Jump our people contribute to trading teams in the following roles or a blend of all three: quant trader, quantitative researcher, and software developer. During our internship you will get training in all of these areas, with a focus in trading and financial markets. Topics include trading strategies, market mechanics, statistics, and our research process for signal generation.
Applying lessons from training, you’ll first work with fellow interns to develop your own predictive models and automated trading strategies for live trading.
Then you’ll have the opportunity to rotate and work with several trading teams. During each rotation, you’ll work on a project with the trading team while being mentored by experienced traders, quant researchers, and developers. This may include other duties as assigned or needed.
Who Should Apply?
Ideal candidates will have:
● Outstanding skills in probabilistic thinking and mathematical reasoning
● Competitive spirit and uncommon drive to learn and improve
● Programming experience
● Appetite for risk-taking
● Demonstrated interest in financial markets
● Reliable and predictable availability required
| APPLY BY October 27th | Only a resume is needed to apply |
Jump Trading is a leading quantitative trading firm built upon cutting-edge research and machine learning, high-performance technology, and an entrepreneurial culture.
Jump has 24 years of experience investing in superior infrastructure, including custom hardware, software, wireless networks, and a world-class supercomputer. We build predictive models from big data and write algorithms to automatically execute trades in dozens of financial exchanges around the world.
Jump is privately owned and funded, fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity, learning, and experimentation.
With offices around the globe, Jump has over 1400 employees, many with backgrounds in trading, Silicon Valley tech companies and startups, top PhD programs, and world-renowned research labs.