PhD Quant Research Intern: Live Markets & Impact

P2P; New York (NY); On-site; USD 270,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is recruiting PhD quant researchers for a 10-week internship in Summer 2027, in our Chicago and New York offices. The program trains you on research processes, ML, statistics, trading, Python, and market mechanics before pairing you with a trading team.

You will tackle real-world projects tied to live business needs, work with leading researchers, and present outcomes after a rigorous, hands-on experience.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, or a highly quantitative field.
• Strong systematic research thinking and ability to form hypotheses and tests.
• Ability to own and explain research choices and results.

Responsibilities

• Match with a trading team and own a research project end to end.
• Collect, clean, and explore large datasets and engineer features.
• Build, fit, and evaluate models on a high-performance grid and present results.
• Receive daily mentorship and grow autonomy over the summer.
• Contribute to live business needs with rigorous analysis.

Skills

PhD candidate

Systematic thinking

Ownership of research

Real-world data

Python programming

Communication

Creativity

Perseverance

Education

PhD in a highly quantitative field

Tools

C++

Job description

Jump Trading Group is recruiting PhD quant researchers for a 10-week internship in Summer 2027, in our Chicago and New York offices. The program trains you on research processes, ML, statistics, trading, Python, and market mechanics before pairing you with a trading team.

You will tackle real-world projects tied to live business needs, work with leading researchers, and present outcomes after a rigorous, hands-on experience.