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Job description
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.
Responsibilities
- Provide front-line operational support for 24/7 Linux HPC compute, storage, and interconnects.
- Solve problem reports and questions posed by members of Jump's research community.
- Respond to alerts in a timely fashion.
- Participate in large, coordinated maintenance operations, including during evenings and weekends.
- Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure.
- Write code for diagnosing, resolving, and triaging difficult problems and automating frequently performed tasks.
- Collaborate with team members and across teams to write code and testing infrastructures.
- Manage relationships with outside vendors.
- Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems.
- Develop and improve systems and user documentation.
- Provide operational support as primary job function.
- Adhere to all company cybersecurity and IT policies.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
- Other tasks as assigned or needed.
Requirements
- A desire for operational work as primary job function.
- At least 2+ years of professional experience with Linux systems.
- High performance computing (HPC) experience is a plus, but not required.
- High proficiency with at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, C).
- Ability to perform root cause analysis.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong collaboration skills.
- Ability to independently manage complex projects and multiple workstreams.
- Strong sense of urgency.
- Willingness to perform regular operational maintenance work during evenings and weekends.
- Ability to work effectively in a busy, open floor plan office environment.
- Reliable and predictable availability.
Conditions
- Work from company office an average of 5 days a week.
- Must be willing to work a maintenance window of either Friday evening or Saturday morning on a rotationary basis.
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading LLC is a proprietary trading firm specializing in algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies across futures, options, cryptocurrency, and equities markets worldwide. The company employs traders, engineers, and researchers to develop advanced models, tools, and systems for global trading. It operates as a registered broker-dealer and member of exchanges like CME Group and NYSE.