jumptrading
Campus Software Engineer (Intern)
Chicago · Intern · Internship
H1B sponsorship availableDetected 13 days ago
PythonC++Data StructuresAlgorithmsLinuxData ScienceAgileHardware DesignResearchCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Interest in using knowledge from several areas -- such as hardware, networking, OS design -- to produce extremely high-performance software
Requirements
- 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.
- Also Helpful, but Not Required:
- Over the course of the summer, you will take on projects working on production code and gain experience with our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies.
- Experience with AI tools like Claude Code in a real work environment
- No finance or economics study or work experience required
Nice to have
- Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
Skills
- Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research.
- Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak.
- Hands-on experience and a high level of proficiency in one or more of the following:
- C++ development on Linux platform
- Python development on Linux platform
- Strong understanding of data structures and threading models
- Ability to work with a team in a fast-paced environment, deploying new software daily
- Reliable and predictable availability
Compensation
- The estimated base salary for this role is $250,000 per year.
Benefits
- Passion for solving complex problems and learning to build optimal solutions from scratch, instead of simply assembling things from existing libraries
Visa & Work Authorization
- We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions
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