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.

What You'll Do:

• 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

What You'll Need:

• 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