FPGA Engineer
FPGA Engineer
A globally leading options market making firm is seeking a FPGA Engineer to join one of their trading teams in Chicago or Austin. While the company has been utilizing FPGA technology for a number of years, you will have the opportunity to build an FPGA application from scratch for an existing team.
Responsibilities:
- Use cutting-edge technology while working on high performance/low latency systems
- Collaborate with team members to investigate and create automated trading algorithms
- Work on high-performance computing systems to break speed and performance boundaries
- Build next-generation algorithmic trading systems;
- Solve low latency trading problems and optimization of performance-critical code
- Develop new hardware platforms
- Identifying opportunities for improvement and experimenting with performance optimizations;
- Apply industry knowledge and technical skills in new and innovative ways
Candidate Requirements:
- Development experience with FPGAs (Verilog/VHDL, functional verification, and static timing closure)
- Demonstrated experience with Bash, TCL, and/or Python scripts
- Experience with FPGA design, simulation, and verification tools (Synopsys, Riviera, ModelSim, Questasim, etc.)
- Experience with FPGAs and CPLDs from vendors (Xilinx, Altera)
- A desire to push the boundaries on performance and lower latency
- Passion for innovation and building systems from the ground up
- Demonstrated experience with Bash, TCL, and/or Python scripts
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment
- Careful attention to detail, and the vision and skill to push beyond expectations
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