Campus Crypto Researcher (Full-Time)
"What You'll Be Doing"
About This Role
As a Campus Full-Time Researcher at Jump Crypto, you'll partner with senior leaders and researchers to help shape the direction of the group's strategic efforts. The role is dynamic and can take several forms depending on your strengths and interests: identifying macro-level trends to inform future efforts, working closely on nuanced technical issues to advise engineers or partners, producing research reports, or advising the business development team on partnerships. You'll draw on 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 understands their own strengths and contributes deeply where they can add the most value.
What You'll Be Doing
Monitor the broader crypto landscape to 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, and anecdotal feedback from the team or partners to produce useful content, recommendations, and strategic advice.
Support the broader Jump Crypto team by producing research that leads to better deals, stronger product insights for engineers, and more strategic partnerships for the investment team.
Make material contributions to Jump Crypto's partners through direct work or advice on code, tokenomics modeling, strategy, and other areas.
Produce actionable insights from incomplete data to guide decisions on investments and product strategy.
Identify early-stage opportunities relevant to the group's investment, engineering, market making, and trading operations.
Feed research insights on emerging trends (such as MEV) or new projects back to the group through strong writing or effective presentations.
Take on other duties as assigned or needed.
What We're Looking For
A deep interest in the crypto industry and a willingness to track its ever-evolving landscape, whether at the level of macro strategy or specific project architecture.
Strong knowledge in one or more disciplines material to blockchain development, including but not limited to smart contracts, cryptography, crypto-economics, networking, consensus algorithms, and distributed systems.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
Ability to balance open-ended, blue-sky research with producing actionable results.
Comfort working in a fast-paced, lean organization with evolving focuses and priorities.
A kind, communicative, resourceful, and self-sufficient approach to working with internal and external stakeholders.
Reliable and predictable availability.
Why Join Us
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
Ready to Apply?
To submit your application for this position, please visit Jump Trading's official website and follow their application process.