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About the Role
As an FPGA Engineer, you will build real-world applications for a global trading firm, creating solutions with nanosecond response times, highly parallelized algorithms, and customized low-level networking to solve business challenges. You will collaborate closely with the business to gain in-depth insight before developing solutions.
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 2026 to June 2027
- A student with 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
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
- Internship
Experience Level
- Student
- Entry Level
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- Highly competitive compensation package
- Global profit-sharing pool
- Performance-based bonus structure
- 401(k) match up to 50%
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Mental health coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Disability coverage
- Life coverage
- 25 paid vacation days
- Market holidays
- Breakfast, lunch and snacks
- Regular social events
- Clubs
- Sporting leagues
About the Company
- Optiver is a leading technology- and research-driven trading firm.
- Our 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.