As Optiver’s FPGA Engineer Intern, you’ll own a project connected to our live trading systems, experiencing tight feedback loops and shipping your code to production alongside our Engineers and Traders. You’ll work side-by-side with your mentor to build latency-critical applications, parallel systems and networking interfaces, giving you a clear view of how low-level engineering decisions connect to trading outcomes. You’ll tackle real issues that will test your critical thinking and problem-solving acumen, and each day will bring new challenges that require fresh perspectives. It’s an opportunity to accelerate your knowledge while contributing to systems that operate in live markets.
Examples of potential projects that you could be working on:
- Supporting new networking protocols – think 25G and 100G interfaces
- Developing FPGA applications in close collaboration with our Traders to improve how strategies behave in live markets – where did that nanosecond go?
- Improving the resource usage of our current systems – why use 8 bits when 3 will do?
- Make your mark on our future trading systems by trailblazing new domain areas – from high-precision timestamping to new proprietary inter-system communication protocols