Senior FPGA Engineer

2 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Belvedere Trading Full time
About Belvedere Trading

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders provide liquidity to the market through market-making activities and excel in a diverse range of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds, and equity index options.

Our Technology

We invest in proprietary technology and build our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay ahead of the industry. This is made possible by our dedicated technology teams who utilize and perfect our innovative technology solutions.

Job Description

We are seeking an FPGA Developer to join our team and drive projects that optimize our options market-making systems. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of delivering complex FPGA systems on a chip design, excellent problem-solving abilities, a can-do/self-driven attitude, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.

Responsibilities
  1. Use modern technology to work on high-performance/low-latency systems
  2. Collaborate with team members to investigate and create automated trading algorithms
  3. Work on high-performance computing systems to break speed and performance boundaries
  4. Solve low-latency trading problems and optimize performance-critical code
  5. Develop new hardware platforms
  6. Identify opportunities for improvement and experiment with performance optimizations
  7. Apply industry knowledge and technical skills in new and innovative ways
  8. Help to continuously improve team productivity, code quality, tool, and technology adoption
  9. Create new features and improve existing experiences
  10. Share ideas, experience, and knowledge with other team members
Requirements
  • 5+ years of 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
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment
  • Careful attention to detail, and the vision and skill to push beyond expectations
Preferred Qualifications
  • 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
Our Culture

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Belvedere Trading is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. We encourage initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees.


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