Hardware Machine Learning PhD Research Internship

• Architect and develop an ML focused research project based on a real-world trading environment
• Work hands-on with hardware engineers to implement verify and deploy ML inference solutions
• Track and evaluate emerging research in neural architecture search machine learning systems and quantization methods and determine what translates to measurable improvements in our systems
• Present your project to the team deepening our collective understanding of an area of ML acceleration
• Gain hardware design fundamentals from skilled RTL developers and learn how they apply to our industry
• Build skills to evaluate research not only from an academic perspective but through real-world performance constraints engineering costs and industry impact

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Physics or a related field
• Solid understanding of hardware constraints and design trade-offs (e.g. pipelining resource utilization fixed-point arithmetic) that shape how ML models can be efficiently mapped onto FPGAs or custom ASICs
• Experience with hardware fundamentals whether through VHDL/SystemVerilog development HLS tools or ML-to-hardware frameworks like hls4ml FINN or Vitis AI
• Understanding of machine learning fundamentals - neural network architectures inference optimization quantization techniques ML frameworks such as PyTorch/TensorFlow
• Proficiency in Python or similar languages for tooling testing and simulation
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across disciplines with both technical and non-technical teams

What We Do

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989 we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative high-performance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Why Work With Us

At IMC the best ideas win regardless of hierarchy. Graduates receive mentorship and make an impact from day one while experienced hires get to shape their own path in a flexible high-performance environment. We remove barriers so everyone can grow and help drive one of the world’s leading liquidity providers.

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