Hardware Engineer Intern, Summer 2027
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. It provides liquidity across global financial markets using advanced technology, quantitative research, trading strategies, and automation.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a global proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm provides liquidity as an options market maker across global financial markets, covering products including commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies. Akuna designs and develops its own low-latency trading systems, mathematical models, strategies, and infrastructure through its Technology, Trading, Quant, and Operations departments. It also offers an Options 101 course introducing industry fundamentals and options trading concepts.
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About the Role
You will join the FPGA team in a 10-week summer internship, design and implement hardware solutions, investigate automated trading algorithms, build high-performance low-latency systems, own a project, and present your work at the end of the program.
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Graduating by August 2029
- GPA of 3.5 or above
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. on the first day of employment
- Knowledge of digital logic circuit design
- Knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to react quickly and accurately to changing market conditions
- Ability to solve math and coding problems
- Ability to create understandable and testable designs
Responsibilities
- Design and implement hardware solutions
- Collaborate with hardware and C++ software engineers
- Investigate and create automated trading algorithms
- Work on high-performance computing systems
- Develop low-latency systems
- Own an internship project
- Present project work and accomplishments