Jump Trading

Jump Trading's student and new-grad page splits early-career hiring into a handful of named "Campus" role families, each posted as a separate listing per office:

• Campus Quantitative Researcher (intern, off-cycle Spring/Fall cohorts) – Hong Kong and other locations.
• Campus AI/ML Researcher (off-cycle Spring/Fall cohorts) – Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong.
• Campus Crypto Researcher – both full-time and intern, in Chicago and London.
• Campus Trading Team Software Engineer (intern) – Hong Kong.

The listings carry a firm-stated expectation that interns are graduating in 2026 or 2027 and intend to take a full-time role at the same office after graduation, so a candidate is applying to a city and a desk as much as to a programme. Separately, Jump runs an academic Fellowship Program for PhD students at US institutions: full tuition plus a roughly $50,000 stipend for one academic year, with no reporting requirements, awarded across categories that include AI/ML, mathematics, physics, computer science and earth sciences. Because the campus roles are split by city and by research area rather than rolled into one cohort, a candidate is choosing the role family and office up front instead of being placed by a general programme.

Three early-career-relevant features fall out of how the firm structures itself and are visible on its own pages:

• A standalone PhD Fellowship Program with university nominations open through 31 October each year and decisions in March-April. The fellowship covers tuition and a roughly $50,000 stipend for one academic year and is unusual in trading-firm recruiting in that it does not require Fellows to intern or commit to the firm.
• A distinct crypto trading arm, Jump Crypto, that recruits campus researchers (both full-time and intern) into Chicago and London on its own listings – separate from the futures, equities and options trading teams.
• A location-and-team-bound model for campus hiring. Listings explicitly tie the off-cycle internship to the office a candidate wants to work in full-time after graduation, so the city decision is upstream of everything else, including which trading team a candidate sees.

For an early-career applicant, this means Jump is not a single "summer internship" decision. It is several parallel decisions: PhD route vs. campus route, trading-team area vs. crypto, and which office to commit to first.