High-performance proprietary development is the source of our success and competitive advantage, further fueling our passion for performance. We are a team driven by intellectual curiosity, seeking answers that will change not only how we trade in this technological age, but also the future landscape of the trading industry. We place a high premium on defining, developing, and deploying high-performance trading software using a team-based, holistic development approach. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success.
We are looking for an FPGA Developer to supplement the team and drive projects that will optimize our options market marking systems. Successful candidates will have a proven track record of success delivering complex FPGA systems on a chip design, possess excellent problem-solving abilities, possess a can-do/self-driven attitude, and have the ability to thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.
The ideal candidate is a creative thinker who has had previous experience developing networks, exchange encoding/decoding, and custom logic on the card. Exchange protocol encoding/decoding experience is desirable. Additional experience developing hybrid hardware/software systems communicating over PCIe is also desirable. The successful candidate will direct their own learning, grow their expertise, and pass that knowledge on to other team members.
What you'll do
- 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
- Help to continuously improve team productivity, code quality, tool, and technology adoption
- Create new features and help improve existing experiences
- Share ideas, experience, and knowledge with other members of the team
What you'll need
- 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
Extra Credit
- Experience in programming languages such as C/C++
- Experience implementing network protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, IGMP, BGP
- Experience analyzing performance requirements and designing systems handling very large volumes of real-time data at extremely low latencies
- Prior experience with exchange protocols: MDP, Ilink, Itch, Pitch, etc.
Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications.
We encourage you to break that mold and apply. No candidate is perfect; all have a lot to offer.
We welcome your application.
Amount of Travel Required: None