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Posted August 31, 2026

Hardware Engineer Internship - Summer 2027

Hudson River Trading

Category:Hardware Engineering

Location:New York

Seniority
Student
Employment type
Intern
Work arrangement
On-site
Salary (per week)
$5,800
Salary (annualized)
$302k
Bonus
Yes

Requirements

  • You are a full-time student in a Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related program
  • You will be graduating and looking for full-time roles in 2028
  • A thorough understanding of digital logic design and/or computer architecture
  • A passion for technology and curiosity for how things work “under the hood”
  • Exceptional problem solving skills
  • Bonus: Familiarity with FPGAs or ASICs
  • Bonus: Exposure to a hardware verification flow such as UVM, or open-source verification tools such as cocotb

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. 

The FPGA/ASIC Design team and Verification team work in close collaboration, pushing boundaries in low-level computer architecture, logic design, tool writing, and the interface between hardware and software. There is often overlap in skills, and both teams work together very closely. The Hardware Engineering Summer 2027 Internship offers candidates the opportunity to explore both Design and Verification roles.

Responsibilities

  • create hardware in SystemVerilog (design)
  • build complex modeling and testing environments in Python (verification)

What you'll get

  • $5,800/wk base salary
  • company-paid housing
  • meals
  • other perks

Skills

digital logic design · computer architecture · SystemVerilog · C++ · Python · Linux · FPGA · ASIC · UVM · cocotb