FPGA Engineer

Belvedere Trading is 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.

• 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
• Development experience with FPGAs (Verilog/VHDL, functional verification, and static timing closure)
• Demonstrated experience with C++, Bash, TCL, and/or Python scripts
• Experience with FPGA design, simulation, and verification tools (Synopsys, Riviera, ModelSim, Questasim, etc.)
• A desire to push the boundaries on performance and lower latency
• Passion for innovation and building systems from the ground up
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment
• Careful attention to detail, and the vision and skill to push beyond expectations