Campus Systems Engineer (Intern)
Jump Trading is recruiting for Campus Systems Engineer (Intern) in Chicago. 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 8, 2026 and reproduced from their job board:
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…
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