FPGA Intern

Location: London, United Kingdom; office-based internship

Company

hirify.global is a diversified proprietary trading firm combining trading technology and quantitative expertise across global financial markets and multiple asset classes.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and deploy proprietary FPGA solutions for trading applications.
• Create decoders that receive raw packet data from exchanges and translate it into accessible formats.
• Develop modules that process decoded data and trigger events for instruments traded on exchanges.
• Design novel FPGA architectures to expand data processing capabilities.
• Research complex technical problems, identify innovative solutions, and communicate recommendations clearly.
• Collaborate with software developers, quantitative traders, researchers, and business analysts.

Requirements

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, or a related scientific discipline.
• Expected graduation between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Exposure to the FPGA development flow.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, problem-solving, and analytical reasoning.
• Excellent development skills in System Verilog, Verilog, or VHDL, plus working knowledge of C++ or Python.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with eagerness to learn new technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Ten-week internship with a meaningful project advised by a hardware engineer and intended for potential deployment.
• Professional mentorship focused on goals, challenges, and development.
• Fully furnished apartments provided close to the office.
• Educational, social, and team-building activities throughout the summer.
• Options course explaining how technology solutions are used in real-time trading.
• Work environment emphasizing autonomy, integrity, curiosity, innovation, and challenging consensus.