Campus FPGA Engineer (Intern)

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Chicago, IL
Internship
Angel or VC Firm
The Role
Join Jump Trading Group as an FPGA Engineer Intern working on next-generation, ultra-low-latency systems for trading with machine learning and algorithms. Collaborate with experienced engineers and PhDs to solve complex problems in networking, high-performance computing, and real-time acceleration.
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Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

About the FPGA Internship:

We’re looking for engineers to join our FPGA team that is building next-generation, ultra-low-latency systems to power trading with machine learning and other algorithms on a global scale. 

This is an opportunity to work on complex problems around networking, high performance computing, and real-time acceleration where we can't just use off-the-shelf hardware. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

You’ll work alongside a small team of experienced engineers who came to Jump from leading companies in FPGAs, semiconductors, networking cards, and more… as well as PhDs from top FPGA research labs around the world. 

Other duties as assigned or needed

SKILLS YOU’LL NEED:

  • Undergraduate or Graduate concentration in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related areas 
  • Experience with FPGA or other hardware/systems design and development
  • Experience with RTL (SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL) 
  • Previous internship experience in hardware or low-level software engineering
  • Experience with C, C++, or Python
  • Passion for solving complex problems and ability to draw upon knowledge and experience from a variety of technical areas to produce extremely high-performance solutions
  • Reliable and predictable availability

BONUS POINTS:

  • lowRISC or RISC-V
  • CocoTB, Chisel, Opencore, or Bluespec
  • HLS or OpenCL 
  • Any programming close to the metal with CPU, GPU, microprocessors, etc.
  • Linux kernel and driver programming
  • Robotics, Telecommunications, or High Speed Networking 
  • Raspberry Pi or Arduino 
  • Excellent marks in courses such as computer architecture, digital design, design verification

Top Skills

C
C++
Python
Systemverilog
Verilog
Vhdl
The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
1,089 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Jump Trading is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets.

Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect.

At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

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