Campus Software Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading; Illinois; On-site; USD 213,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is offering a 10-week software engineering internship with our technology team, building and maintaining a distributed trading system and high-performance infrastructure. You will work alongside seasoned engineers, receive mentorship, and contribute to production code using Agile processes; this program often leads to full-time opportunities at Jump.

Ideal candidates have hands-on C++ or Python on Linux, strong data structures, and a drive to innovate across hardware,

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in C++ on Linux.
• Proficiency in Python on Linux.
• Strong understanding of data structures and threading models.
• Ability to work with a team in a fast-paced environment, deploying new software daily.
• Passion for solving complex problems and learning to build optimal solutions from scratch.
• Interest in hardware, networking, OS design to produce high-performance software.

Responsibilities

• 10-week software engineering internship with our technology team designing, coding, testing, and maintaining our distributed trading system and world-class infrastructure.
• Work side by side with experienced software engineers and receive mentoring from a dedicated mentor.
• Internship program is a pathway to earning full-time opportunities at Jump.
• Contribute to production code and gain experience with our full-cycle development and release process using Agile methodologies.
• Apply programming and analysis skills to our real-time, high-performance trading platform and related infrastructure.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills

C++ development

Python development

Data structures

Threading models

Linux

Team collaboration

Performance optimization

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

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 winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Core Development is a global team of technologists who lean into the cutting edge of agentic development to architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage the latest agentic tools to deliver the infrastructure that drives our trading and business needs.

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 working side by side with our experienced software engineers and will receive ongoing coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the summer. Our internship program 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 Jump.

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. 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 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
• Passion for solving complex problems and learning to build optimal solutions from scratch, instead of simply assembling things from existing libraries
• Interest in using knowledge from several areas -- such as hardware, networking, OS design -- to produce extremely high-performance software
• Reliable and predictable availability

Also Helpful, but Not Required:

• Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
• Advanced coursework in algorithms, network programming, 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 eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions

The estimated base salary for this role is $250,000 per year.