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Campus Quantitative Trader (Intern)

A 10-week quant trading internship at Jump's Hong Kong and Shanghai offices. You learn trading intuition, market mechanics and the research process.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Train in trading strategies and market mechanics
Join trading team projects
Play mock trading sessions and poker training
Learn the signal-generation research process

What they ask for

Required

Probabilistic thinking
Mathematical reasoning
Programming experience
Appetite for risk
Interest in markets
Interest in working in Hong Kong or Shanghai

Education: Strong undergraduate or graduate programme
Experience: Students
Languages and tools: Python

How to prepare

Practise probability and expected value puzzles and games
Build a simple market simulation
Learn Python for data analysis
Read about how exchanges and liquidity work

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Jump Trading and doesn’t handle applications.