About the Role
Jump Trading Group is committed to world-class research, empowering exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets. Our culture fosters innovation, fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent through collaboration and mutual respect. Research outcomes drive superior risk-adjusted returns, and we design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups, and partner with leading organizations to solve problems. Core Development is a global team of technologists who architect, build, and maintain our world-class trading platform, leveraging software & hardware engineering, data science, and research to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs. We accept students needing placements or extended internships, and internships can take place during non-summer terms.
Responsibilities
- Build next-generation, ultra-low-latency systems to power trading with machine learning and other algorithms on a global scale.
- Work alongside experienced engineers on complex problems around networking, high performance computing, and real-time acceleration.
- Design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world.
- Other duties as assigned or needed.
Requirements
- Undergraduate or Graduate concentration in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related areas.
- Experience with FPGA or other hardware/systems design and development.
- Experience with RTL (SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL).
- Previous internship experience in hardware or low-level software engineering.
- Experience with C, C++, or Python.
- Passion for solving complex problems and ability to draw upon knowledge and experience from a variety of technical areas to produce extremely high-performance solutions.
- Reliable and predictable availability.
- Excellent marks in courses such as computer architecture, digital design, design verification.
Skills
- FPGA
- Hardware/systems design and development
- RTL (SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL)
- C
- C++
- Python
- Claude Code
- CocoTB
- HLS or OpenCL
- Programming close to the metal with CPU, GPU, microprocessors, etc.
- Linux kernel and driver programming
- Robotics
- Telecommunications
- High Speed Networking
- Raspberry Pi
- Arduino
- Computer architecture
- Digital design
- Design verification
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Internship
- Placement
Experience Level
- Internship
Education Level
- Undergraduate or Graduate concentration in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related areas.
About the Company
- Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research.
- 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.
