Senior FPGA Engineer

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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