Job Description

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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