FPGA Engineer Intern, Austin)
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About the Role
As an FPGA Engineer Intern, you'll work with your mentor and teammates to build real-world applications that power a global trading firm. Projects will focus on nanosecond response times, highly parallelized algorithms, and customized low-level networking.
Key Responsibilities
- Accelerate network infrastructure and trading system components with high-speed hardware designs.
- Research new low-latency techniques and platforms and identify opportunities for integration with our trading system.
- Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team of traders, software developers, and infrastructure engineers.
- Leverage the best hardware available or build in-house versions to ensure our FPGAs can interface with cutting-edge server hardware.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Hands-on experience in digital design with FPGAs or ASICs.
- Experience in writing hardware in VHDL, Verilog, or System Verilog.
- Passion for writing clean code, well-architected systems, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborative teammate comfortable working with developers, traders, and business teams.
Qualifications
- Student pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or another related field.
- On track to graduate between December 2027 to June 2028.
- Junior standing or higher.