FPGA Intern

DRW is recruiting for FPGA Intern in London. This listing was last seen on the firm's own job board on August 22, 2026.

A broad principal trading firm covering rates, energy, crypto, and real estate, so desk fit matters as much as the screen.

What sets DRW apart: Widest asset coverage of any firm on this list, including physical commodities. Desk assignment happens late, so you interview for the firm rather than a team. Serious crypto and digital assets business through Cumberland.

Related preparation: Quantitative Developer (QD) Career Roadmap, Quant Infrastructure Engineer Roadmap, Quantitative Data Engineer Career Roadmap and Algorithmic Trading Developer Career Roadmap.

The role, as DRW describes it, published on July 16, 2026 and reproduced from their job board:

Our formula for success is to hire exceptional people, encourage their ideas and reward their results.

As an FPGA Intern, you will build advanced trading applications leveraging cutting-edge technology. DRW enables our FPGA Interns to develop a real-world trading centric FPGA application under the guidance of senior technologists with the goal of deployment during your ten weeks. While your days will have you immersed in complex projects directly driving DRW’s progress, your evenings will be spent exploring the city with organized social events to truly discover what it is like to live and work in London.

How you will make an impact…

Design, develop, test, and deploy proprietary FPGA solutions. Examples include creating:

Decoders to receive raw packet data from various exchanges and translate it into a more accessible form

Modules which take decoded data and trigger events for specific instruments traded on that exchange

Novel FPGA architectures to expand our data processing capabilities

Identify innovative solutions to complex problems and advocate for their implementation to your team by communicating your ideas in a clear and concise manner

Conduct robust research using all available resources to determine the best solution

Collaborate with software developers, quantitative traders, and researchers as well as business analysts in cross-functional team environments

What you bring to the team…