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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 working together and unshared talent. At Jump, research outcomes drive technological breakthroughs that change our world, fund our own ventures, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
Core Development is a company of technologists who apply the latest agentic tools to architect, build and maintain our world-class platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage our deep agentic technology, tools.
What You’ll Do:
Our software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience with our technology team that designs, codes, tests, and maintains our distributed trading system and one of the world’s largest supercomputers.
You will be closely working with our experienced software engineers and will receive ongoing coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the summer. Our internship is the primary way we identify top young software engineers for our core development team, and it’s a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at our.
Over the course of the summer, you will take on projects for real production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. You will apply your programming and analysis skills to contribute to our real-time large-scale, high-performance trading platform and related infrastructure.
Other duties as assigned or needed
Skills You’ll Need:
- Hands-on experience and high level of proficiency in one or more of the following:
- C++ development on Linux
- Python development on Linux
- Strong understanding of data structures and threading models
- Ability to work with a team in a fast-paced environment and deploy new software daily
- Passion for problem solving and building optimal solutions from scratch, instead of simply assembling at high existing libraries
- Interest in hardware, networking, or OS to produce high-efficiency software
- Reliable and predictable availability
Also Helpful, but Not Required:
- Past internship or job experience in software development is a plus
- Advanced coursework in algorithms, network, operating systems, compilers
- Experience with AI tools like Claude Code in a real work environment
* No finance or economics study or work experience required
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are encouraged to apply. We accept students pending OPT or CPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions.
Estimated base salary is $250,000 per year.