FPGA Engineer

FPGA Engineer - Permanent - Sydney - Trading

About the role

• High Frequency Trading Firm
• $200,000 - $250,000 Base + Bonus
• Sydney CBD
• Permanent Opportunity

A leading high frequency trading firm is looking for an FPGA Engineer to join its high-performance engineering team in Sydney.

Working at the intersection of hardware, software and trading, you'll develop FPGA-based solutions that sit at the core of the firm's market connectivity and execution platforms. This is an opportunity to work on technology where performance is measured in nanoseconds and every optimisation can create a real competitive advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement FPGA solutions for market data processing, order handling and trade execution systems.
• Partner with traders and developers to transform trading requirements into highly efficient hardware solutions.
• Drive performance improvements across critical systems through optimisation, profiling and latency analysis.
• Build and maintain testing, simulation and validation frameworks to ensure reliability in production environments.
• Contribute to the firm's ongoing technology advantage by researching and adopting new FPGA and hardware technologies.

Key Requirements

• Commercial experience developing FPGA or ASIC solutions using VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog.
• Strong understanding of digital design concepts including pipelining, flow control and clock domain crossing.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems where performance and determinism are critical.
• Exposure to networking and exchange connectivity, including protocols such as Ethernet, TCP/UDP, FIX, ITCH or OUCH.
• Programming capability in Python, C++ or C, with experience working across both hardware and software environments.