Campus Quantitative Trader (Full-Time)

Jump Trading is recruiting for Campus Quantitative Trader (Full-Time) in London; Amsterdam. This listing was last seen on the firm's own job board on August 22, 2026.

Low-latency engineering is the product, so the systems bar is higher than the probability bar.

What sets Jump Trading apart: Latency engineering weighted above trading intuition. Deep C++ and hardware questions, including cache and network behaviour. Secretive by policy, so very little public information about desks.

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The role, as Jump Trading describes it, published on July 13, 2026 and reproduced from their job board:

Jump Trading 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 incentivising 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…

About the Role:

At Jump, our people contribute to trading teams in the following roles, or a blend of all three: quant trader, quant researcher, and quant developer. Quant Traders will get training in all of these areas, with a focus in trading and financial markets. You will also participate in mock trading sessions, poker training, and other modules designed to improve probabilistic thinking, risk-taking, and trader mindset.

You will then work alongside our trading teams to devise trading strategies across global markets.

Other duties as assigned or needed.

Who Should Apply?

We are seeking the sharpest analytical minds from top undergraduate and graduate programs.

Ideal candidates will have:

Outstanding skills in probabilistic thinking and mathematical reasoning

Competitive spirit and uncommon drive to learn and improve

Programming experience