FPGA Engineer
Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm and market maker headquartered in Chicago, with additional offices in Boulder, New York, and Singapore. Founded in 2002, the firm builds proprietary trading technology and risk management systems to capitalize on market inefficiencies across options and other derivatives markets.
About Belvedere Trading
Belvedere Trading emerged in March 2002 as one of Chicago's newest market makers, establishing its place in the SPX pit on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Since inception, the firm has invested iteratively in proprietary technology, starting with an options model, adapting it to handheld computers, and eventually building its software systems from the ground up. Due to its ultramodern proprietary technology and risk management capabilities, Belvedere is able to quickly capitalize on inefficiencies in the marketplace, with trading models and software systems continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay competitive. The firm operates from Chicago, Boulder, New York, and Singapore, employs close to 300 individuals, and is known for low turnover, high referral rates, and a strong company culture centered on core values such as teamwork, ownership, and innovation. Belvedere focuses on proprietary trading across asset classes including equity and commodity options, leveraging cutting-edge technology and talented people to sustain its growth.
Skills
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