jumptrading

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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