


As a Campus Intern Researcher at Jump Crypto, you will have the opportunity to partner with senior Leaders of Jump Crypto and other senior researchers to help shape the direction of our strategic efforts. The Researcher role is dynamic. Depending on your strengths and interests, you may be looking for macro-level trends that will inform the group’s future efforts, heads down on a nuanced issue advising our engineers or partners, producing valuable research reports, or advising our business development team on partnerships. You’ll use your deep 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 will know their strengths and contribute deeply to areas where they believe they can add the most value. What You’ll Do: * Monitor the broader crypto landscape and 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, as well as anecdotal feedback from our team or partners to produce valuable content, recommendations, or general advice to guide our group’s strategy. * Look to empower the broader Jump Crypto team through great research that facilitates better deals, more robust product insights for our engineers, and more strategic partnerships for our investment team. * Make material contributions to Jump Crypto’s partners through direct contributions or advice on code, tokenomics modeling, strategy, and other areas. * Produce actionable insights on incomplete data to drive decision making on investments and product strategy. * Identify early-stage opportunities for our investments, engineering, market making, and trading operations. * Feed research insights on new trends (such as MEV) or projects back to the group through strong writing or effective presentations. * Other duties as assigned or needed.