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Posted August 31, 2026

Hardware Design Engineer - 2027 Grads

Hudson River Trading

Category:Hardware Engineering

Location:New York

Seniority
Student
Employment type
Full-time
Salary
$300k
Bonus
Yes

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, with eligibility for full-time employment in 2027
  • Deep knowledge of FPGA internals and/or ASIC
  • Excellent digital logic design, optimization, debugging and problem solving skills
  • Thorough understanding of computer architecture and vendor tool suites
  • Comfortable working in a Linux environment
  • Previous internship experience in digital logic design
  • Expertise in networking protocols, CPU design, physical design, or machine learning accelerators is a big plus

About the role

The Hardware team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) creates high performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technologies to drive low latency trading decisions on global markets. We build custom solutions across the spectrum of speed and smarts: from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators.

HRT hires for both design and verification roles. There is often overlap in skills, and both teams work together very closely. Design engineers typically have training in computer architecture and digital logic design, and they are primarily focused on creating hardware in SystemVerilog. Verification engineers typically have training in both digital logic and software engineering, and are primarily focused on building complex modeling and testing environments in Python and C++. If you are interested, you can view our Design Verification (DV) Engineer - 2027 Grads posting here.

We do not allow multiple applications. Please apply to the ONE role you are most interested in and we will consider you for all open positions when reviewing your application.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to a highly collaborative team, working closely with others to deliver hardware solutions
  • Describe and communicate hardware designs at a high level (the interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm/circuit), or anywhere in between
  • Analyze and fix problems quickly
  • Continuously learn, tinker, and explore new technologies to deepen your hardware expertise
  • Challenge your teammates and raise the bar for the work the team produces
  • architect and design complex systems on a highly collaborative global team
  • identify efficient ways to perform on-the-fly transformations of market data and implement models with complex data structures in RTL

What you'll get

  • $300k base salary
  • discretionary performance-based bonuses
  • competitive benefits package

Skills

SystemVerilog · FPGA · ASIC · digital logic design · computer architecture · vendor tool suites · C++ · Python · Linux · networking protocols · CPU design · physical design · machine learning accelerators · RTL