Hey everyone,

Our next social event this term is Discord bot night! We’ll be opening up a channel for you to add your bots to, and we’ll be voting on our favourite at the end. We’ve also got messages from Optiver and Jane Street this week so check them out below!

If you aren’t already on the CompSoc Discord, you can *join it here https://discord.gg/RhvsMSn* to take part in social events and keep in touch with other members.

/- Matthew and the rest of the committee/

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Events

Discord Bot Night https://www.facebook.com/events/419590409286219/

*19:00, Saturday, Week 1, Discord*

Spend the night trying to make the most fun bot you can, and at the end, we’ll have a vote for the society’s favourite! Have a look at the Discord API documentation https://discord.com/developers/docs/intro if you want to learn a bit about it beforehand, or look at useful modules like discord.js https://discord.js.org/ or discord.py https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Sponsor Notices

Optiver

Tradercraft

The exciting world of electronic trading is a problem solver’s paradise. However, to truly put your skills to the test, you’ll need to know some secrets of the trade. It’s time to learn some… Tradercraft. Hosted by Optiver trainer, Robbert Pullen, this interactive training course delves into the theory and techniques of modern-day trading and market making. You’ll get access to Optiver’s proprietary virtual trading platform, Optibook, and gain a deeper understanding of how to develop and analyse trading algorithms. You’ll also be shown how best to optimise them for different financial instruments using your knowledge of Python and have the support of experienced industry professionals. There’ll also be prizes up for grabs for the top performers including: Nintendo Switch gaming system (1st), JBL Charge 4 bluetooth speaker (2nd), Gaomon S620 graphics tablet (3rd)

*Apply here: https://insights.optiver.com/tradercraft2021/ https://insights.optiver.com/tradercraft2021/*

*Applications close on the 22nd of January!*

Jane Street

Jane Street invites you to apply to our summer 2021 FPGA engineer internship!

*About the Position*

We’re big believers in the ability of tools to make programming faster, more pleasant, and more reliable. We think the same is true for hardware design, and we’re looking for people with experience in hardware design who are interested in using programming language technology to improve the process of designing, testing and validating hardware designs.

Your intern projects will predominantly involve OCaml & Hardcaml, for both RTL design and testing/integration.

If you’d like to get an idea how we design and test our FPGAs and how the process of designing hardware can be improved by applying lessons from software engineering check out our OCaml All The Way Down talk https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/ocaml-all-the-way-down/ and Programmable Hardware podcast episode https://signalsandthreads.com/programmable-hardware/.

*About You*

The role involves building FPGA applications from concept to a working design. You will:

* Be comfortable with a software programming language. * Have experience with a Hardware Description (or Construction) language (VHDL, Verilog, Chisel, Pymtl or other), for both writing and testing hardware designs. * Have experience working with FPGA vendor tools - Vivado or Quartus. * Have built a working FPGA project through academic, professional, or personal project experience. * An interest in learning how to use using FPGAs in the context of networking.

We don’t expect you to have experience with functional programming, OCaml, or finance; we’re happy to hire talented engineers who are excited to approach hardware design with a software engineering mindset and teach them what they need to know.

Please note that while we’re working remotely right now, we’re hoping to to host our 2021 internships back in the London office if public health conditions allow.

Apply here! https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/apply/4971898002/

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