Jump Trading

Hardware Engineer, Platforms

Jump Trading  •  Sydney, AU (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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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.

Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business. We're looking to hire a Hardware Engineer to join our Platforms team and assist with the design and development of novel high speed networking devices.


What You'll Do:

  • Lead definition of PCB, chassis, and other deployment form factors for our range of in-house ASICs and off-the-shelf FPGAs.
  • System design, schematic capture and PCB layout of high-speed digital devices featuring 10/25GbE and PCIe Gen5.
  • Manage relationships with external contract designers and manufacturers
  • Develop thermal and power strategy for deployments within many worldwide data centers
  • Work with ASIC design team to influence designs
  • Specify and oversee characterization of technologically demanding solutions
  • Produce documentation and characterization literature
  • Interpret high level requirements to create exceptional solutions for the trading community
  • Provide mentorship to less experienced members of the team

Skills You’ll Need:

  • A strong understanding of electronics and high speed digital systems
  • Direct experience in the following:
    • High Speed PCB design, preferably with Altium Designer.
    • Signal Integrity and Power Integrity techniques
    • Deployment of high-reliability/safety-critical systems
    • Prototype bringup, test and characterization of high speed digital links
    • PCBA production test programme management
  • A passion for development, a strong work ethic and the drive to continually learn and improve
  • Sound understanding of technology trade-offs, and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
  • The ability to work both alone and as part of a small multi-disciplined team
  • Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or related subject
  • At least 3 years of production design experience

Bonus points:

  • Experience in working with RF systems
  • Software development skills – Python, C/C++
  • RTL development skills for FPGAs – SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL
  • Post silicon ASIC validation, characterization and production test suite creation
  • Knowledge of semiconductor package design and fabrication processes and workflows
Jump Trading

About Jump Trading

For more than 25 years, Jump Trading has been home to people who see trading as the most fascinating problem in the world and want to solve it from every angle.

Headquartered in Chicago with 13 offices across 8 countries, we operate across asset classes, time zones, and horizons. If it trades, we want to trade it.

We are traders, engineers, and researchers working side by side to build the systems that move global markets. Our culture is built on curiosity, precision, and relentless iteration. We care deeply about impact, collaboration, and solving problems few ever get to see.

At Jump Trading, AI and machine learning are central to how we trade and build. We design and deploy advanced models, infrastructure, and tools to operate at scale in high-stakes, adversarial environments. From low-latency systems to cutting-edge research, we push the boundaries of what is possible.

We are also committed to the next generation of talent. Our student programs, from internships to our fully funded PhD Fellowships, provide hands-on experience, mentorship, and opportunities to do meaningful work. We support students at leading conferences worldwide and invite them to work with our teams on real-world challenges.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Year Founded
Unknown
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