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Campus Quantitative Research Intern (Off-Cycle - Winter/Spring 2027)

CompanyJump Trading
LocationHong Kong Island
Work ModeOn Site
PostedAugust 25, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
You will build predictive models from big data and develop algorithms to automatically execute trades across global financial exchanges. Additionally, you will contribute to research, data science, and software development tasks while receiving mentorship from experienced quantitative researchers.
Internship Type
full time
Company Size
2123
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
For more than 25 years, Jump Trading has been home to people who see trading as the most fascinating problem in the world and want to solve it from every angle. Headquartered in Chicago with 13 offices across 8 countries, we operate across asset classes, time zones, and horizons. If it trades, we want to trade it. We are traders, engineers, and researchers working side by side to build the systems that move global markets. Our culture is built on curiosity, precision, and relentless iteration. We care deeply about impact, collaboration, and solving problems few ever get to see. At Jump Trading, AI and machine learning are central to how we trade and build. We design and deploy advanced models, infrastructure, and tools to operate at scale in high-stakes, adversarial environments. From low-latency systems to cutting-edge research, we push the boundaries of what is possible. We are also committed to the next generation of talent. Our student programs, from internships to our fully funded PhD Fellowships, provide hands-on experience, mentorship, and opportunities to do meaningful work. We support students at leading conferences worldwide and invite them to work with our teams on real-world challenges.
About the Role

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 incentivizing 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.

Our trading teams are each comprised of a dynamic group of traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers who work together to examine the global markets, seeking to understand the complexities of various traded products and exchanges. They leverage their impeccable statistical analysis and data mining skills, using the results of their research to make forecasts and develop profitable predictive trading models.

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*Candidates for this off-cycle internship should be graduating in 2027 and be interested in working in Hong Kong or Shanghai for their full-time job after graduation.
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About the Role:

We build predictive models from big data and develop algorithms to automatically execute trades in dozens of financial exchanges around the world.

At Jump you will have the opportunity to contribute in a blend of three roles – quant researcher / data scientist, trader, and software developer – based on your incoming skills and background, interest and curiosity, and the new skills and industry knowledge that you will learn at Jump.

You will receive training, coaching and mentorship from experienced quants/traders to successfully apply skills in a variety of areas like machine learning, trading / market mechanics, statistics, Python, and C++. You will help build predictive models, leveraging one of the largest supercomputers in the world, and devise automated trading strategies to test in the markets against world-class competition. Other duties as assigned or needed. 

Who Should Apply? 

  • We are seeking the sharpest analytical minds from top undergraduate and graduate programs. Ideal candidates have an uncommon drive to learn and improve, an entrepreneurial spirit, and strong skills in programming and/or quantitative analysis (statistics, data mining, mathematics, machine learning, etc.).
  • No prior knowledge of finance or trading is necessary. We’ll give you the training that you’ll need.
  • Reliable and predictable availability required.
  • Although we strongly value training in Computer Science and Mathematics, we are excited to meet people with exceptional achievements in any technical discipline. Recent hires include students from fields such as Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Physics, Neuroscience, Materials Science, Operations Research, and more.

If you have outstanding skills in math, ML, and programming and you are curious about the challenge of improving research with daily feedback from competitive markets, we hope you’ll apply.

 

Key Skills
MathematicsPhysicsComputer ScienceStatistical AnalysisData MiningMachine LearningPythonC++Predictive ModelingAlgorithmsQuantitative AnalysisData ScienceTrading MechanicsFinancial Markets
Categories
Finance & AccountingData & AnalyticsScience & ResearchTechnologySoftware