Hardware Engineer (FPGA/ASIC) - 2027 Summer Internship

Tum International Gmbh; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Jane Street offers a Summer Internship in Hardware Engineering (FPGA/ASIC) where you pair with mentors to work on real projects the team actually needs done.

You'll explore OCaml and Hardcaml to describe hardware, test designs, and integrate RTL code, with exposure to the internal toolchain and workflow. No prior Hardcaml experience required, and you’ll gain hands-on FPGA/ASIC experience throughout the program.

Qualifications

• Comfortable with a software programming language.
• Experienced with a Hardware Description language (VHDL, Verilog, Chisel, Pymtl, or other) for both writing and testing hardware designs.
• Experienced working with FPGA or ASIC vendor tools - Vivado or Quartus for FPGAs, Genus or Innovus for ASICs.
• Experienced with building a working hardware project (FPGA or ASIC) through an academic, professional, or personal project.
• Interested in learning how to use FPGAs or ASICs in networking contexts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on a hardware project with mentorship from full-time engineers.
• Design, test, and validate hardware components using OCaml & Hardcaml where applicable.
• Contribute to both RTL design and integration efforts on FPGA/ASIC work.
• Present progress and lessons learned to the hardware team during the internship program.

Skills

OCaml

Hardcaml

Verilog

VHDL

FPGA Tools

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

Genus

Innovus

Job description

Hardware Engineer (FPGA/ASIC) - 2027 Summer Internship

About the position

Our goal is to give you a real sense of whatit's like to work at Jane Street full timewhile also providing a truly unparallelededucational experience. As an intern, you arepaired with full-time employees who act asmentors, collaborating with you on real-worldprojects we actually need done.

In this internship, you'll learn how we usetools to make programming faster, more pleasant,and more reliable. We apply these same principlesto our hardware engineering work, and we'relooking for people who are interested in usingprogramming language technology to improve theprocess of designing, testing, and validatinghardware designs. We use Hardcaml, an OCamllibrary for succinctly describing hardware in RTL.Hardcaml is tightly integrated into ourdevelopment environment, so you'll also gainlots of exposure to the libraries and tools thatare foundational to our internal systems. Noprevious knowledge of Hardcaml is required.

The hardware team at Jane Street works on bothFPGA and ASIC designs. Depending on yourbackground and experience, we'll craft aproject that gives you exposure to our sharedHardcaml tech stack, as well as targeting an FPGAor ASIC platform.

During the programme, you'll dive deep onone project, mentored closely by the full-timeemployees who helped design it. Some internprojects consider big-picture questions thatwe're still trying to figure out, while othersinvolve building something new. Your mentors willhelp you gain a better understanding of the widerange of problems we solve every day. We expectinterns to build hardware applications fromconcept to a working design; your projects willpredominantly involve OCaml & Hardcaml, forboth RTL design and testing/integration.

If you’d like to learn more, you can read aboutour interview process, meet some of our newesthires, or check out our OCaml All The Way Downtalk and Programmable Hardware podcast episode.You can also learn more about Jane Street’sinternship programme here.

About you

We don't expect you to have a background infinance, OCaml, functional programming, or anyother specific field—we're looking for smartpeople who enjoy solving interesting problems.We're more interested in how you think andlearn than what you currently know. You shouldbe:

• Comfortable with a software programminglanguage
• Experienced with a Hardware Description(or Construction) language (VHDL, Verilog, Chisel,Pymtl, or other), for both writing and testinghardware designs
• Experienced working with FPGA or ASICvendor tools - Vivado or Quartus for FPGAs, Genusor Innovus for ASICs
• Experienced with building a workinghardware project (either FPGA or ASIC) through anacademic, professional, or personal project
• Interested in learning how to use FPGAsor ASICs in the context of networking

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