Campus Crypto Researcher (Full-Time)
Jump TradingAbout the Role
As a Campus Researcher at Jump Crypto, you will partner with senior Leaders and researchers to shape the direction of strategic efforts. The role is dynamic and may involve identifying macro-level trends, providing technical advice to engineers and partners, producing research reports, or advising business development on partnerships. You'll leverage deep knowledge of crypto industry, computer science, distributed systems, consensus algorithms, networking, game theory, and blockchain technology to identify, vet, and propose new business initiatives.
- Monitor the broader crypto landscape and identify new opportunities
- Translate industry trends into actionable architecture, product, or investment strategy
- Produce valuable content and recommendations from technical repositories, research reports, white papers, and industry relationships
- Make material contributions to Jump Crypto's partners through advice on code, tokenomics modeling, and strategy
- Produce actionable insights on investments and product strategy
- Feed research insights on new trends back to the group through strong writing and presentations
Requirements
- Obsessed with the crypto industry and willing to follow its ever-evolving landscape to help guide the group's efforts optionally on macro-level strategy or specific project architecture
- Well versed in one, or many disciplines material to blockchain development including, but not limited to, smart contracts, cryptography, crypto-economics, networking, consensus algorithms, distributed systems, and other related technologies
- An excellent communicator across both written and verbal channels, and able to effectively convey technical concepts clearly to the appropriate audience
- Able to balance open-ended, blue-sky research with actionable results
- Excited by the prospect of working in a fast-paced and lean organization with evolving focuses and priorities
- Kind, communicative, resourceful, self-sufficient, and able to work with internal and external stakeholders
- Reliable and predictable availability