FPGA Engineer
Belvedere Trading is a proprietary trading firm and market maker founded in Chicago. It develops proprietary trading models, software, and risk-management systems, and operates across Chicago, Boulder, New York, and Singapore.
About Belvedere Trading, LLC.
Belvedere Trading is a proprietary trading firm and market maker specializing in financial markets, including options, indices, commodities, equities, and equity strategies. The company uses proprietary trading models, software platforms, quantitative research, and risk-management capabilities to identify market inefficiencies and execute trading strategies. It also provides capital, infrastructure, operational support, and strategic guidance to backed trading groups and partners, and may acquire established trading teams or their intellectual property. The company recruits and trains quantitative traders, researchers, software engineers, and operations professionals through its Belvedere Trading University program.
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About the Role
You'll join the technology team to design and optimize high-performance, low-latency FPGA systems that power our options market-making platform. You'll use cutting-edge tools to build next-generation algorithmic trading systems, develop new hardware platforms, and solve complex low-latency problems. You'll collaborate closely with teammates to investigate and create automated trading algorithms, experiment with performance optimizations, and apply your technical skills in new and innovative ways. You'll also help continuously improve team productivity, code quality, and tool adoption while sharing your ideas and knowledge with the rest of the team.
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
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 optimize performance-critical code
- Develop new hardware platforms
- Identify opportunities for improvement and experiment with performance optimizations
- Apply industry knowledge and technical skills in new and innovative ways
- Help 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