Jump Trading
Network Engineer - Wireless
$175K–$215K
Chicago +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States - Education
- 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.
About the job
Build, operate, and improve high-performance wireless network paths and the monitoring, automation, and field operations that support them.
What you'll do
- Develop network monitoring, device integrations, AI/LLM-assisted diagnostic tools, and configuration-as-code workflows.
- Design, commission, benchmark, and maintain wireless and wireline paths, including frequency coordination and site strategy.
- Lead production incident response, live-network changes, postmortems, and field documentation.
What they ask for
- 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; Linux/UNIX proficiency, including advanced shell usage and git-based workflows.
- Networking fundamentals, practical SNMP and out-of-band device management, and RF fundamentals.
- Ability to direct external and remote parties; willingness to travel internationally and domestically and participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations.
Nice to have
- Experience with monitoring and observability infrastructure such as Grafana, Icinga, Splunk, ClickHouse, or Device42.
- Experience with precision network-path benchmarking, containers and orchestration, regulatory processes, RF/optical test equipment, GIS, or wireless/optical transport.
Pay
$175,000 — $215,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Linux/UNIX, git, SNMP, Grafana, Icinga, Splunk, ClickHouse
AI focus
Develop AI- and LLM-assisted diagnostic and chat-ops tooling to shorten incident triage and on-call response.
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