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About the Role

Jump Trading Group is committed to world-class research, empowering exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to push scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets. Our AI team is an R&D group of quantitative researchers, engineers, and ML experts leading LLM research and applications, combining emerging techniques and original research to generate signals from unstructured data and provide frontier AI capabilities to quantitative professionals.

Responsibilities

Lead an open-ended research project from concept to production.
Find compelling problems well-suited to current and projected LLM capabilities.
Collaborate extensively with trading teams to understand requirements and constraints.
Continuously improve model design, tools, and infrastructure.
Target any area of the quantitative research process with potential for firmwide application.
Other duties as assigned or needed.

Requirements

Demonstrated ability to apply machine learning to achieve state-of-the-art capabilities in complex and challenging domains.
Capability to lead an open-ended research project from concept to production.
Ability to find compelling problems well-suited to current and projected LLM capabilities.
Ability to collaborate extensively with trading teams to understand requirements and constraints.
Ability to continuously improve model design, tools, and infrastructure.
Ability to target any area of the quantitative research process with potential for firmwide application.
Belief that successful research efforts require a fluid mix of skills including ML expertise, engineering pragmatism, and market intuition.
Brilliance in one area, competence in a second, and enthusiasm for a third.
5+ year track record of creating ML systems with real metrics & impact in industry and/or academia.
Strong general ML background with some exposure to language modeling architectures (e.g. transformers, SSMs).
Solid development skills in Python and/or C++.
Familiarity with ML libraries/frameworks such as PyTorch (preferred), TensorFlow, and/or JAX.
Intellectual curiosity, versatility, and originality combined with a pragmatic outlook.
Ability to reason through quantitative problems and communicate effectively with trading researchers.
PhD, or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, (or related subject).
Strong publications record at ICML, ICLR, AAAI, NeurIPS, UAI, KDD, or equivalent.
Reliable and predictable availability.
Experience with HPC and distributed large model training.
Experience with GPU performance optimization (CUDA or ROCm).
Experience with end-to-end model development, especially in LLMs.
Prior academic publications and/or contributions to open-source AI research.
Strong opinions on best practices in ML research, tooling, and/or infrastructure.

Skills

Machine Learning
LLM Research
Language Modeling Architectures (transformers, SSMs)
Python
C++
PyTorch
TensorFlow
JAX
Quantitative Reasoning
Effective Communication
HPC
Distributed Large Model Training
GPU Performance Optimization (CUDA or ROCm)
End-to-end Model Development
ML Research Best Practices
ML Tooling Best Practices
ML Infrastructure Best Practices

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5+ years of experience

Education Level

PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related subject

Salary/Compensations

$200,000—$300,000 USD

Benefits

Discretionary bonus eligibility
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
Paid vacation plus paid holidays
Retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave
Wellness Programs

About the Company

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.