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. We're builders, partners, and traders who take a long-term view of crypto's prospects and operate to unlock the full potential of open, community-driven networks. Since our inception as a skunkworks intern project in late 2015, we've 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 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 group’s 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. You’ll 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 You’ll 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 Crypto’s own data, as well as anecdotal feedback from our team or partners to produce valuable content, recommendations, or general advice to guide our group’s 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 Crypto’s 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 You’ll Need: - Obsessed with the crypto industry and willing to follow its ever-evolving landscape to help guide the group’s 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.

Campus Intern Crypto Researcher 2026 LDN

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