Campus Crypto Researcher (Full-time)

About Jump and Jump Crypto

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.

Jump Crypto the crypto division of Jump Trading Group is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. Were builders partners and traders who take a long-term view of cryptos prospects and operate to unlock the full potential of open community-driven networks. Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015 weve grown into a dynamic and seasoned team of high performing players across a range of functions. Today we play an important role in the development of some of the largest and most innovative crypto communities.

As a Campus Intern / Full-time Researcher at Jump Crypto you will have the opportunity to partner with senior Leaders of Jump Crypto and other senior researchers to help shape the direction of our strategic efforts. The Researcher role is dynamic. Depending on your strengths and interests you may be looking for macro-level trends that will inform the groups future efforts heads down on a nuanced issue advising our engineers or partners producing valuable research reports or advising our business development team on partnerships. Youll use your deep knowledge of the crypto industry computer science distributed systems consensus algorithms networking game theory and other disciplines relevant to blockchain technology to help identify vet and propose new business initiatives. The ideal candidate will know their strengths and contribute deeply to areas where they believe they can add the most value.

What Youll Do:

• Monitor the broader crypto landscape and identify new opportunities for Jump Crypto.
• Translate industry trends into actionable architecture product or investment strategy.
• Aggregate information from technical repositories research reports white papers industry relationships Jump Cryptos own data as well as anecdotal feedback from our team or partners to produce valuable content recommendations or general advice to guide our groups strategy.
• Look to empower the broader Jump Crypto team through great research that facilitates better deals more robust product insights for our engineers and more strategic partnerships for our investment team.
• Make material contributions to Jump Cryptos partners through direct contributions or advice on code tokenomics modeling strategy and other areas.
• Produce actionable insights on incomplete data to drive decision making on investments and product strategy.
• Identify early-stage opportunities for our investments engineering market making and trading operations.
• Feed research insights on new trends (such as MEV) or projects back to the group through strong writing or effective presentations.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills Youll Need:

• Obsessed with the crypto industry and willing to follow its ever-evolving landscape to help guide the groups efforts optionally on macro-level strategy or specific project architecture.
• Well versed in one or many disciplines material to blockchain development including but not limited to smart contracts cryptography crypto-economics networking consensus algorithms distributed systems and other related technologies.
• An excellent communicator across both written and verbal channels and able to effectively convey technical concepts clearly to the appropriate audience.
• Able to balance open-ended blue-sky research with actionable results.
• Excited by the prospect of working in a fast-paced and lean organization with evolving focuses and priorities.
• Kind communicative resourceful self-sufficient and able to work with internal and external stakeholders.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

The estimated base salary for this role is $200000 per year.

Benefits include:

• Private Medical Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits