Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Engineer

Senior FPGA Engineer – Low-Latency Trading
Location: New York City
Compensation: $250K–$400K base + significant performance bonus
I’m working with a highly successful quantitative investment firm looking to hire a Senior FPGA Engineer to build and lead its FPGA capability from the ground up.
This is not a maintenance or incremental development position. You’ll have the opportunity to define the architecture, tooling and technical standards for a new FPGA platform, working directly with quantitative researchers, traders and software engineers to identify where hardware acceleration can deliver a genuine trading advantage.

What you’ll be doing:
Design and build a low-latency FPGA platform from first principles
Develop FPGA solutions for electronic trading and market-data processing
Work closely with traders and quantitative researchers to identify opportunities for hardware acceleration
Own architecture and technical decisions across the FPGA environment
Integrate FPGA technology into the wider trading and research stack
Take projects through the full lifecycle from initial concept and design to production
Help establish engineering standards and best practices as the FPGA capability grows
What we’re looking for:
Significant hands-on FPGA engineering experience
Proven experience designing FPGA-based systems end-to-end
Strong SystemVerilog and/or VHDL expertise
Previous experience with low-latency electronic trading, market data or similarly performance-sensitive systems
Strong understanding of FPGA architecture and hardware/software integration
Ability to operate with significant autonomy and make high-level architectural decisions
Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate directly with quantitative and software engineering teams

The key attraction is ownership: rather than inheriting a mature FPGA stack, you’ll have the mandate to determine how the platform should be designed and built from day one.
Compensation: $250K–$400K base + significant performance-driven bonus. Total compensation can be substantially higher for exceptional candidates.
If you’ve built ultra-low-latency FPGA systems within trading and want the opportunity to architect a platform from scratch, please reach out for a confidential discussion.
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