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Freelance Linux Kernel Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Jump Trading

Campus FPGA Engineer (Intern)

Chicago, IL · On-site

$250K/yr

Linux kernel and driver programming * Robotics, Telecommunications, or High Speed Networking * Raspberry Pi or Arduino * Excellent marks in courses such as computer architecture, digital design ...

Jump Trading

Campus FPGA Engineer (Intern)

Chicago, IL · On-site

$250K/yr

Linux kernel and driver programming * Robotics, Telecommunications, or High Speed Networking * Raspberry Pi or Arduino * Excellent marks in courses such as computer architecture, digital design ...

Jump Trading

Campus FPGA Engineer (Intern)

Chicago, IL · On-site

$250K/yr

Linux kernel and driver programming * Robotics, Telecommunications, or High Speed Networking * Raspberry Pi or Arduino * Excellent marks in courses such as computer architecture, digital design ...

Canonical

Software Engineer - OpenStack

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

We are hiring a Software Engineer for our OpenStack Engineering team. This is an exciting ... Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python ...

IMC Trading

Trading Engineer - Execution

Chicago, IL · On-site

... Linux operating systems, network configuration, and server management • Strong understanding of ... and kernel bypass technology • Proficiency in Python and Bash • Demonstrated curiosity and ...

Grubhub

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Chicago, IL

... deep Linux internals knowledge and kernel-level tuning to maximize efficiency and stability ... Hands-on familiarity and engineering experience with modern IaC frameworks, specifically Terraform ...

Grubhub

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

... deep Linux internals knowledge and kernel-level tuning to maximize efficiency and stability ... Hands-on familiarity and engineering experience with modern IaC frameworks, specifically Terraform ...

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Campus FPGA Engineer (Intern)

Jump Trading

Chicago, IL • On-site

$250K/yr

Full-time, Internship

Re-posted 3 days ago

Job description

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 global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
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)
  • Previous internship experience in hardware or low-level software engineering
  • Experience with C, C++, or Python
  • Passion for solving complex problems and ability to draw upon knowledge and experience from a variety of technical areas to produce extremely high-performance solutions
  • Reliable and predictable availability

Also Helpful, but Not Required:
  • lowRISC or RISC-V
  • CocoTB, Chisel, Opencore, or Bluespec
  • HLS or OpenCL
  • Any programming close to the metal with CPU, GPU, microprocessors, etc.
  • Linux kernel and driver programming
  • Robotics, Telecommunications, or High Speed Networking
  • Raspberry Pi or Arduino
  • Excellent marks in courses such as computer architecture, digital design, design verification

* No finance or economics study or work experience required
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are encouraged to apply. We accept students eligible for CPT/OPT and we sponsor work visas for full-time positions.
The estimated base salary for this role is $250,000 per year.

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