Graduate TRAINEESHIP

FPGA SCHOOL

Our three-week FPGA School brings together new hires from across IMC’s global offices. Develop your skills working on the backbone of IMC’s world-class trading infrastructure.

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are the backbone of our trading infrastructure. Around the world, IMC’s skilled field FPGA engineering teams build the speed and capacity required to scale up our trading activities across new products, platforms, and markets.

Whether you're an experienced engineer or have just graduated from university, our FPGA School is designed to give you a thorough grounding in IMC’s hardware and how we work with it.

As you learn the technical skills to help you thrive at IMC, you’ll be exposed to our unique collaborative, high-performance culture and ways of working. Best of all, you’ll be learning from our exceptionally talented engineers, developers, and traders.

WHO IS IT FOR?

Our FPGA School is designed for IMC's new graduate hires and experienced hardware engineers.

The FPGA School was a fun and engaging programme that covered a wide range of topics, from exchange mechanics to FPGA frameworks, complemented with exciting, hands-on projects.
Engineer, Amsterdam

IMC’S FPGA SCHOOL AT A GLANCE

Apply your programming skills in IMC’s specialist, fast-paced environment.

Training delivered entirely by internal IMC experts.

Collaborate with and learn from seasoned engineers and developers across our offices.

Immerse yourself in IMC’s high-performance culture and ways of working.

Network with senior management and leaders from across the business.

Participate in Traineeship-specific and company-wide social events.

THE ITINERARY

THREE WEEKS TO SUCCESS

Sharpen your skills with our structured three-week programme.

Develop a solid, high-level understanding of trading and financial markets before learning exactly how we trade at IMC. We’ll also provide the inside track on our market-leading systems and strategies from seasoned IMC traders and software and hardware engineers.

Discover IMC’s unique development system and flow. Then get to know our strategies and develop your own. Finally, we’ll demonstrate how we make tradeoffs in design, and what we consider important and why.

At the end of the school, you’ll return to your local office to continue your professional development with your assigned team. Get ready to learn from the brightest minds in trading and technology.

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MEET OUR RECENT TRAINEES

Watch our video and get an inside look at our FPGA School from IMC trainees around the world.

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