Senior FPGA Design Engineer

Are you excited by the idea of using your hardware development skills to build low latency trading systems? Would you like to help us explore new architectures for some of our most advanced trading strategies? Our client is seeking an ASIC/FPGA Design Engineer for our Hardware development team. As a member of this emerging team, you will help craft our development environment and processes. And as a technology team member you will work with other specialists, traders, and quants to design and develop next generation end-to-end trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Work with a skilled team to establish a pragmatic architectural vision that emphasizes low latency
• Collaborate with senior members of the technology architecture team to review and improve our approach to building trading platforms
• Learn and gain understanding of trading workflow, quantitative modelling, and system performance requirements collaboratively with a multi-functional team
• Develop an implementation roadmap in partnership with Quant and Trading to deliver incremental improvements in trading performance while significantly improving the system architecture
• Design and implement functionality, participate in team code reviews, and provide valuable feedback on performance, logic, standard methodologies and maintenance issues to ensure code-level consistency

Qualifications

• Advanced experience and expertise with FPGA development
• Advanced experience coding using HDLs with an emphasis on SystemVerilog or VHDL
• Ideally experienced with computer architectures, network protocols, and software development with an emphasis on C/C or Python
• Desire to use modern agile design & test practices
• Financial industry experience is a plus but not required

Compensation: Salary - 175,000 - $250,000 plus substantial bonuses to bring total compensation significantly higher.