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