Campus Crypto Researcher (Full-time)
Jump Trading GroupChicago, Illinois, United States
Posted November 13, 2025
200000 - 200000 USD year
About the Company
Jump Trading Group is committed to world-class research and empowering exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.
Job Description
Jump Crypto is seeking a Campus Crypto Researcher to partner with senior leaders and other researchers to shape the direction of their strategic efforts. The role involves monitoring the crypto landscape, translating industry trends into actionable strategies, and producing valuable research reports.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation plus paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs