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Hardware Machine Learning PhD Research Internship

Chicago💼 Internship💰 $225,000–$225,000🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect and develop ML-focused research projects to deploy machine learning directly onto custom hardware for low-latency inference.

Role type

PhD Research Intern (Hardware Machine Learning)

Builds

Prototype ML inference solutions and benchmarks for custom ASICs/FPGAs

Domain

Hardware acceleration, low-latency ML inference, financial trading infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Neural network architectures, inference optimization, quantization techniques, VHDL/SystemVerilog, HLS tools, ML-to-hardware frameworks (hls4ml, FINN, Vitis AI), Python

Preferred skills

Fixed-point arithmetic, pipelining, resource utilization, real-world performance constraints evaluation

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, hls4ml, FINN, Vitis AI, SystemVerilog, VHDL

Responsibilities

Implement, verify, and deploy ML inference solutions; track and evaluate emerging research in neural architecture search and quantization; present research findings to the team

Seniority

PhD Candidate (Research Intern)

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