Graduate FPGA Engineer (2027 Start - Austin)
Optiver · Austin, TX · 1 wk ago
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About the role
You’ll work side-by-side with teammates to build real-world applications that power a global trading firm. You’ll create solutions with nanosecond response times, highly parallelized algorithms, and customized low-level networking that solve business challenges effectively and efficiently. Collaborating closely with our business, you’ll have in-depth insight into a problem before developing the solution.
Responsibilities
- Accelerate network infrastructure and trading system components with high-speed hardware designs.
- Research new low-latency techniques and platforms and identify opportunities for integration with our trading system.
- Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team of traders, software developers, and infrastructure engineers.
- Leverage the best hardware available or build in-house versions to ensure our FPGAs can interface with cutting-edge server hardware.
Qualifications
- A student pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or another related field.
- On track to graduate between December 2026 to June 2027.
- Strong engineering instincts and hands-on experience in digital design with FPGAs or ASICs.
- Experienced in writing hardware in VHDL, Verilog, or System Verilog.
- Passionate for writing clean code, well-architected systems, and continuous improvement.
- A collaborative teammate comfortable working with developers, traders and business teams.
Benefits
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
- A highly competitive compensation package.
- A global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure.
- A 401(k) match up to 50%.
- Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage.
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays.
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more.