Campus Systems Engineer (Intern)

P2P; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Part time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group offers a 10-week Technology Operations internship where interns work directly with experienced systems and network engineers to learn the trading platform, infrastructure, and DevOps‑based software practices. This hands-on program aims to identify top talent for future full‑time opportunities in a fast‑paced, high‑stakes environment.

You will gain practical knowledge across Linux, networking, scripting, and production systems, while collaborating with traders and developers to

Qualifications

• Majors in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field.
• Experience with Linux/UNIX OS, advanced commands, and shell scripts.
• Practical working knowledge of Python.
• Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, ethernet.
• Rigorous, detail‑oriented operations mindset.
• Ability to operate and communicate clearly under pressure.
• Desire to work in a collaborative, team environment.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the trading environment with traders, operations, exchanges, and developers.
• Proactively monitor overall health and performance of the trading platform.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking issues.
• Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for low‑latency trading across data centers.
• Build automation to manage and improve production trading environment.
• Coordinate changes and manage incidents with risk management and trading teams.
• Define and document process and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Linux/UNIX

Python

Networking

Systems engineering

DevOps

Pressure handling

Team collaboration

Education

CS/Engineering/Info Systems major

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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world‑class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

About the Role

Our technology operations internship is an intensive 10‑week experience with our frontline technology teams that are responsible for managing, monitoring, and improving the real‑time trading environment at Jump Trading.

You will be working directly with our experienced systems and network engineers, gaining broad technical and operational knowledge across all aspects of the trading platform and technology stack. Our internship program is the primary way we identify top young system engineers for our Technology Operations teams, paving the path toward earning full‑time opportunities at Jump.

We are looking for bright and highly motivated individuals that want to grow their knowledge of systems and networking, understanding of modern trading at scale, and practical DevOps‐based software engineering skills.

What You’ll Do

• Systems Engineer interns will work with traders, operations, exchanges, and developers to optimize the trading environment and investigate and solve system issues.
• Proactively monitor the overall health and performance of the trading platform.
• Work closely with our world‑class technology organization to:
  • Analyze and troubleshoot complex system, software, and networking infrastructure issues.
  • Design, implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low‑latency trading applications at various data centers throughout the world.
• Build automation to manage and improve the production trading environment.
• Work closely with risk management and trading teams to coordinate changes and manage incidents.
• Manage and assess operational risk of change control into the production environment.
• Define and document process and procedure.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need

• Major in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field.
• Experience working with Linux/UNIX OS including advanced commands and shell scripts.
• Practical working knowledge of python.
• Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, ethernet.
• A rigorous, detail‑oriented approach to operations.
• Ability to operate and communicate clearly under pressure.
• Desire to work in a collaborative, team environment with a positive can do attitude.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

No finance or economics study or work experience required

The estimated base salary for this role is $200,000-$250,000 per year.