About the Role
This intensive 10-week program focuses on enhancing quantitative and programming skills, offering an experience similar to a full-time quant trader role. Interns will be trained in areas such as Machine Learning, trading mechanics, C++, statistics, and signal generation research. The program involves developing predictive models and automated trading strategies, followed by rotations with trading teams, working on projects mentored by experienced professionals.
Responsibilities
- Develop predictive models and automated trading strategies for live trading.
- Rotate and work with several trading teams on projects.
- Receive mentorship from experienced quant researchers, traders, and developers.
- Contribute to trading teams in roles such as quantitative researcher/data scientist, algorithmic trader, and software developer.
Requirements
- Seeking sharp analytical minds from top undergraduate and graduate programs.
- Ideal candidates have an uncommon drive to learn and improve.
- Must possess an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Strong skills in programming and/or quantitative analysis (statistics, data mining, mathematics, machine learning, etc.).
- No prior knowledge of finance or trading is necessary.
- Reliable and predictable availability required.
- Outstanding skills in math and programming.
- Curious about the challenge of improving research with daily feedback from competitive markets.
Skills
- Quantitative analysis
- Programming
- Machine Learning
- Statistics
- Data mining
- Mathematics
- C++
- Algorithmic trading
- Software development
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Internship
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Internship
Education Level
- Undergraduate
- Graduate
About the Company
- Jump Trading is committed to world-class research, empowering talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to push scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.
- Our culture emphasizes constant innovation, fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak.
- We believe in winning together by incentivizing collaboration and mutual respect.
- Jump's research outcomes drive superior risk-adjusted returns, and we design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world.
- We fund start-ups across industries and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
