Network Engineer - Wireless

As a Network Engineer for Wireless at Jump Trading, you'll join Tower Pros, the field operations team building and maintaining first-in-class wireless networks for leading high-frequency trading firms. This role sits at the intersection of software, RF engineering, and network operations, where your work directly impacts latency-critical paths in financial markets. You'll own the full stack: from monitoring and diagnostics to link design, commissioning, and incident response on production networks across licensed microwave, millimeter wave, free space optics, and shortwave.

What you'll do

• Build and run the monitoring and mapping platforms that give the team a live view of the network, including telemetry pipelines that collect and baseline link performance (RSSI, SNR, BER), alerting systems, and the interfaces engineers actually work in.
• Write device control and protocol integrations for amplifiers, radios, controllers, and power systems over serial/TCP, SNMP, and vendor APIs.
• Develop AI and LLM-assisted diagnostic and chat-ops tooling that shortens incident triage and on-call response.
• Manage radio and link configuration as code in git, so network changes are reviewed, versioned, and repeatable.
• Build measurement and analysis tooling that benchmarks your paths against market performance, identifies where you lead and where you have slipped, and turns gaps into actionable recommendations.
• Work with public regulatory, spectrum, and structure datasets (FCC ULS, ASR, prior coordination filings, and international equivalents) as research inputs to inform route and site strategy.
• Design and evaluate wireless paths including line-of-sight and Fresnel clearance analysis, link budgets, and antenna and mount geometry.
• Run frequency studies and prior coordination for new and modified licensed links.
• Engineer the wireline side of wireless: DWDM channel planning, dark fiber turn-ups, exchange cross connects, and precision timing.
• Commission new links across licensed microwave, millimeter wave, free space optics, and shortwave, verifying post-cutover performance against expected receive levels.
• Lead incident response on production paths: triage, fault isolation, signal spectrum analysis, and historical performance review, resulting in a documented fault hypothesis and parts list for field repair.
• Drive every incident through resolution and postmortem, feeding what broke back into monitoring, tooling, and network design to prevent recurrence.
• Plan and execute changes on live networks, including maintenance window planning and formal outage notification to external counterparties.
• Write runbooks and field work instructions that let remote crews and on-call engineers execute reliably without your direct involvement.
• Identify and develop new sites: towers, rooftops, water tanks, data centers, and greenfield land.

What you bring

• A degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in RF, telecom, or network operations.
• Strong practical Python for automation, device integration, and data pipelines. This goes beyond one-off scripts: you have built and maintained tools that other engineers depend on.
• Linux/UNIX proficiency, including advanced shell usage and git-based workflows.
• Networking fundamentals: routing, multicast, Ethernet, VLANs, and L1 optical equipment.
• Practical experience with SNMP and out-of-band management of remote devices.
• RF fundamentals: path analysis, signal modulation, spectrum analysis, interference, and antenna systems.
• The ability to direct external and remote parties toward a deadline, from vendors and contractors to field crews and carriers, across multiple time zones.
• A rigorous approach to change control in a production environment where mistakes are measured in microseconds and dollars.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally to towers, rooftops, data centers, and rural greenfield sites.
• Availability for a follow-the-sun on-call rotation across Americas, EMEA, and APAC, including occasional weekend and off-hours maintenance windows.
• Creativity, attention to detail, and a competitive drive.

Nice to have

• Experience building monitoring and observability infrastructure such as Grafana, Icinga, Splunk, ClickHouse or other time-series databases, and Device42 or similar inventory systems.
• Experience with metric collection and hardware control over REST APIs, DMVPN, LTE, and cloud service routers.
• Experience benchmarking network path performance at high precision, including timestamp analysis, one-way delay measurement, or comparative latency studies across routes or providers.
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), configuration management, and CI/CD practices.
• Regulatory processes: FCC licensing and ASR, FAA filings, zoning and permitting, or telecom site development.
• RF and optical test equipment: spectrum analyzers, BER testers, OTDR or light meters. Commercial contract, lease, or public procurement experience.
• GIS tooling such as ArcGIS and KML/KMZ workflows.
• Direct experience with microwave, millimeter, HF, or optical transport.

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $175,000-$215,000 USD
• 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 and AD&D insurance
• Paid vacation plus paid holidays
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness programs

About Jump Trading

Jump Trading Group is a research-driven firm that applies cutting-edge science and engineering to global financial markets. The company funds startups across industries and partners with leading research organizations and universities to solve complex problems.