Campus FPGA Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading is recruiting for Campus FPGA Engineer (Intern) in Chicago. This listing was last seen on the firm's own job board on August 22, 2026.

Low-latency engineering is the product, so the systems bar is higher than the probability bar.

What sets Jump Trading apart: Latency engineering weighted above trading intuition. Deep C++ and hardware questions, including cache and network behaviour. Secretive by policy, so very little public information about desks.

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The role, as Jump Trading describes it, published on July 8, 2026 and reproduced from their job board:

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading…

Core Development is a global team of technologists who lean into the cutting edge of agentic development to architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage the latest agentic tools to deliver the infrastructure that drives our trading and business needs.

What You'll Do:

We’re looking for engineers to join our FPGA team that is building next-generation, ultra-low-latency systems to power trading with machine learning and other algorithms on a global scale.

This is an opportunity to work on complex problems around networking, high performance computing, and real-time acceleration where we can't just use off-the-shelf hardware.

You’ll work alongside a small team of experienced engineers who came to Jump from leading companies in FPGAs, semiconductors, networking cards, and more… as well as PhDs from top FPGA research labs around the world.

Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

Undergraduate or Graduate concentration in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related areas

Experience with FPGA or other hardware/systems design and development

Experience with RTL (SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL)