FPGA Engineer

A leading trading firm is expanding its hardware teams with strong FPGA Engineers in Chicago or Austin.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and develop high-performance FPGA solutions for latency-sensitive systems
• Accelerate critical infrastructure and data processing components through custom hardware architectures
• Explore emerging technologies, platforms, and design approaches that can improve system performance
• Partner closely with quantitative researchers, software engineers, and infrastructure teams
• Develop custom hardware interfaces for next-generation computing environments
• Evaluate and collaborate with external technology providers where appropriate
• Take ownership of projects from concept through deployment

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• Professional experience designing, implementing, and validating FPGA or ASIC-based systems
• Strong understanding of digital design principles and hardware architecture
• Experience with HDL development using technologies such as VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog
• Familiarity with C and/or C++ is beneficial
• Knowledge of RTL design flows, timing closure, synthesis, and constraint management
• Experience with simulation environments, verification methodologies, and automated test frameworks
• Exposure to hardware bring-up, debugging, and system integration is advantageous
• Ability to collaborate effectively across software and hardware engineering disciplines

Skills: ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), C Programming Language, C++ Programming Language, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Systems, Data Processing, Debugging Skills, Design Flows, Electrical Engineering, Emerging Technology, FPGA, Graphic Design, Hardware Architecture, Hardware Architecture Design, Hardware Components, Hardware Description Language, Hardware Development, Performance Management, Quantitative Research, RTL Design, Simulation, Software Engineering, System Integration (SI), SystemVerilog, Team Player, Test Harness, Timing Verification, VHDL Hardware Description Language, Verilog Hardware Description Language