Campus Crypto Researcher
Jump Trading is a global trading firm where traders, engineers, and researchers develop trading strategies, models, infrastructure, and systems across asset classes and time horizons.
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a global trading firm focused on research-driven trading and the engineering of scalable models, tools, infrastructure, and execution systems. Its operations combine trading, technology, AI/ML, and quantitative research, and it also runs research and talent programs including conference travel grants and a fellowship program.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will monitor the crypto landscape, identify opportunities, and translate industry trends into architecture, product, or investment strategies. You will research technical repositories, reports, white papers, data, and industry relationships to produce recommendations and strategic advice. You will contribute to partner initiatives involving code, tokenomics modeling, and strategy, and communicate insights through writing and presentations.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of the crypto industry
- Knowledge of smart contracts, cryptography, crypto-economics, networking, consensus algorithms, or distributed systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to balance open-ended research with actionable results
- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders
- Reliable and predictable availability
Responsibilities
- Monitor the broader crypto landscape
- Identify new opportunities
- Translate industry trends into actionable strategies
- Aggregate technical and industry information
- Produce research reports, recommendations, and strategic advice
- Contribute code, tokenomics modeling, and strategy to partner initiatives
- Produce actionable insights from incomplete data
- Identify early-stage investment, engineering, market making, and trading opportunities
- Communicate research insights through writing and presentations
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Travel medical insurance
- Group pension scheme
- Group life assurance
- Income protection schemes
- Paid parental leave
- Parking benefits
- Commuter benefits
