
FPGA Engineer
Overview:
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, and deploy FPGA-based solutions for parsing market data and executing trades with ultra-low latency.
- Collaborate with traders and developers to translate strategy requirements into real-time hardware logic.
- Analyse and optimize system performance at every level—from transceiver tuning to logic layout.
- Develop and maintain a robust simulation and testing framework to ensure system reliability.
- Monitor and improve FPGA performance in live trading environments through benchmarking and profiling.
- Explore emerging technologies and bring new ideas to continually sharpen our hardware advantage.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years’ experience in co-designing FPGA and software systems for critical applications
- BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Exposure to financial markets, exchange protocols (FIX, OUCH, ITCH)
- Extensive experience with FPGA or ASIC technologies, including proficiency in either VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
- Strong engineering skills in Python, C++ or C.
- Solid understanding of digital design principles, including pipelining, flow control, and clock domain crossing.
- Experience with FPGA development tools and toolchains (Vivado, Quartus, Synplify, etc.).
- Proven ability to optimize for low latency and high throughput in production systems.
- Familiarity with networking protocols (e.g., Ethernet, TCP, UDP)
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
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