Jump Trading
Digital Modem Engineer
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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 incentiving 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-latency Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.
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Jump is looking for a Digital Modem Engineer to join our world-class wireless team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of custom, low-latency modem architectures for our point-to-point wireless networks around the globe.
What You'll Do:
- Design, simulate, and realize innovative physical layer wireless communication algorithms for low latency applications
- Implement modem/system models and perform detailed performance investigations to allow performance sign-off and enable RTL development
- Collaborate with digital designers and firmware developers to realize algorithms with power and area efficient implementation
Skills You’ll Need:
- At least 5+ years of experience in the design, build, and deployment of digital modem systems
- Deep knowledge and demonstrated experience in digital modem design, including:
- Transmit and receive pulse shaping digital filter design
- Symbol rate throughput, latency, and spectral occupancy analysis and optimization
- Carrier/symbol clock offset tracking and recovery
- Adaptive equalization using blind, training-based, and decision-directed algorithms
- Channel modeling and simulation
- Fixed point design, simulation and analysis
- Experience with Python, C/C++ and/or Matlab for algorithm development, modeling (floating-point and fixed-point) and link-level simulation
- MS/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Reliable and predictable availability
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Bonus Points:
- Experience in logic design for wireless modem FPGAs, ASICs, or custom data-path components for DSP applications (sequential and arithmetic components)
- Familiarity with Radio Frequency (RF) and microwave components: oscillators, mixers, attenuators, amplifiers, couplers, isolators, Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) layout
If you are currently a student or recent graduate, please see our Campus postings which offer both intern and full-time opportunities.
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
Annual Base Salary Range
$150,000—$250,000 USD
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