FPGA Engineer

Belvedere Trading • Chicago, IL

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders provide market liquidity through market-making activities across various commodities, interest rates, ETFs, and equity index options. We iteratively invest in and build our proprietary technology from the ground up, continuously re-engineering, optimizing, and maintaining our trading models and software systems. Our success and competitive advantage stem from high-performance proprietary development, fueled by a passion for performance. We are a team driven by intellectual curiosity, seeking to innovate the trading industry. We emphasize defining, developing, and deploying high-performance trading software using a team-based, holistic development approach. We seek passionate team members whose contributions are critical to our continued success. Belvedere Trading is looking for an FPGA Developer to join the team and drive projects that will optimize our options market making systems. Successful candidates will have a proven track record of delivering complex FPGA systems on a chip designs, possess excellent problem-solving abilities, a can-do/self-driven attitude, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. The ideal candidate is a creative thinker with 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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Exchange protocol encoding/decoding experience
• Experience developing hybrid hardware/software systems communicating over PCIe

Responsibilities

• 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
• Identify 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

Benefits

• Discretionary bonuses
• Access to a variety of benefits (details on website)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed