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About the Role

As an FPGA Engineer Intern, you will work with mentors and teammates to build real-world applications for a global trading firm. Projects will focus on nanosecond response times, highly parallelized algorithms, and customized low-level networking, contributing to meaningful projects.

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

• A 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, with junior standing or higher.
• Strong engineering instincts and hands-on experience in digital design with FPGAs or ASICs.
• Experienced in writing hardware in VHDL, Verilog, or System Verilog.
• Passionate for writing clean code, well-architected systems, and continuous improvement.
• A collaborative teammate comfortable working with developers, traders and business teams.

Skills

• FPGA
• ASIC
• VHDL
• Verilog
• System Verilog
• Digital Design

Location

• Chicago

Work Type

• Internship

Experience Level

• Intern

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• PhD

Salary/Compensations

• Highly-competitive internship compensation package

Benefits

• Optiver-covered flights, living accommodations, and commuting stipends
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

About the Company

• Optiver is a leading technology- and research-driven trading firm.
• Teams of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and traders work side by side to develop, test, and scale ideas that shape how we understand and trade global markets.
• Powered by a global platform built for rapid experimentation and iteration, we combine the scientific rigor of a research institution with the pace of a technology company.

Equal Opportunity

• Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.
• Optiver is supportive of US immigration sponsorship for this role.
• Optiver has a global application re-apply policy for our intern and graduate roles. If you have completed any portion of an online assessment or interviewed for an FPGA Engineer graduate or internship role at any Optiver location in the past 8 months, please note that you are not yet eligible to reapply. We welcome you to re-apply to after the 8-month cool off period.