Hardware Engineer (FPGA)
Virtu Financial is a global financial services firm and market maker providing liquidity, execution services, analytics, and trading technology across multiple asset classes.
About Virtu Financial, Inc.
Virtu Financial, Inc. leverages market-structure expertise and technology to provide liquidity and transparent trading solutions across equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income, cryptocurrency, and commodities. Its offerings include market making, execution services, liquidity sourcing, multi-asset analytics, data products, compliance tools, and broker-neutral workflow technology.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and develop RTL for low latency trading applications and own hardware designs from specification through verification to production deployment. You will also improve build simulation and verification infrastructure and coordinate hardware deployments in live production environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field
- 2+ years of professional FPGA or ASIC experience or an advanced degree substitution
- Strong RTL design and verification skills using SystemVerilog VHDL and cocotb
- Familiarity with FPGA and IC design flows and vendor toolchains including Xilinx AMD Synopsys and Cadence
- Working knowledge of high speed interfaces including Ethernet MAC PHY PCIe and AXI
- Programming experience in Python C++ or similar
- Back end physical design experience
- Understanding of network protocols and packet processing including TCP UDP IP multicast and hardware protocol offloading
Responsibilities
- Design and develop RTL for new low latency trading applications
- Own designs from specification through verification to production deployment
- Improve build simulation and verification infrastructure
- Coordinate and execute hardware deployments in live production environments
Benefits
- 26 days annual leave
- Additional leave for community service marriage or civil partnerships and moving house
- Paid maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Private health dental and optical cover
- GP access
- Dedicated wellness programme
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Competitive pension scheme
- Gym subsidy or fitness reimbursement
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Commuter benefit plan
- Personal travel insurance
- Complimentary catered lunches every day
- Laundry service
- Onsite gym
- Barber and hairdresser service
Hiring Process
Initial application screening; HackerRank online assessment; phone screen.