Jump Trading quant salary and jobs
A research-driven Chicago firm that posts $300,000 annualized for trading and research interns.
Quant roles at Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a Chicago-headquartered proprietary trading firm built around small, independent trading teams. Its campus program hires quantitative traders, quantitative researchers and software engineers through internships, plus AI research engineers for its deep-learning effort, and it sponsors work visas for full-time campus roles.
Jump’s board showed 91 postings on Nov 11, 2026, 23 of them US quant, research or engineering reqs across Chicago (21) and New York (13).
Jump Trading quant salary
Base: the range across Jump’s live campus full-time listings on Nov 11, 2026 — $200,000–$250,000 on Campus Quantitative Researcher | Trading Team PhD/Postdoc and Campus Systems Engineer, and $300,000 on the Campus AI Research Engineer listings. Internships are posted annualized: $300,000 for Campus Quantitative Trader and Campus Quantitative Researcher (UG/MS and PhD), $250,000 for Campus Software Engineer. Experienced listings post $200,000–$250,000 for software engineers and $200,000–$300,000 for Derivatives Quantitative Researcher. Full-time roles are bonus-eligible.
Jump Trading pay by track
| Track | Role title | New-grad base | Summer 2027 internship | Experienced base | Open now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quant trader | Campus Quantitative Trader | Not posted | $300k annualized | $200k–$300k | Yes |
| Quant researcher | Campus Quantitative Researcher | $200k–$250k (PhD) | $300k annualized | $200k–$300k | Yes |
| Quant developer | Campus Software Engineer | $200k–$250k | $250k annualized | $200k–$250k | Yes |
Posted base pay, except figures marked “package”, which are the firm’s estimated annual compensation package. Bonuses, sign-on payments and housing are extra to base pay.
What Jump Trading employees report
Self-reported total compensation from Levels.fyi. These are not posted figures and play no part in the ranking. They cover every office and all years of experience, and the site does not show how many reports are behind each one.
| Title on Levels.fyi | Total compensation |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | Median $450K |
Only figures the site labels a median or breaks out by level are shown. Source: Levels.fyi, read November 11, 2026.
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