FPGA Engineer - London, United Kingdom - Hunter Bond

Description

Job Description

My client is seeking skilled engineers specializing in FPGA systems to join their key revenue generating business area. You will be responsible for designing, constructing, and sustaining a high-performance, highly available, and adaptable FPGA trading platform tailored for a myriad of assest classes.

Your focus will be on implementing the platform, its surrounding ecosystem, order management workflows, writing highly performant code, and optimizing its interaction with the hardware and infrastructure it is executing on. Additionally, you will adopt a data driven approach to decision making and participate in the full product lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and monitoring execution quality.

As this is a global team you will need to collaborate with colleagues across the world.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 2+ years' experience+ working with FPGAs (some experience within a financial/trading setting is a must).
• Extensive experience with SystemVerilog or a similar hardware description language.
• Ability to create testbenches to validate HDL code through simulation with ModelSim experience a plus.
• Strong grasp of computer networks with in-depth understanding of Ethernet and TCP / IP.

Bonus points for:

• Experience in C/C++ programming and working in a Linux environment.
• Linux systems programming experience with particular focus on networking stack.
• Experience in debugging a live FPGA system using signal tapping.