FPGA Design Engineer - Market Data & Trading Systems (Chicago)

FPGA Design Engineer – Market Data & Trading Systems

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Specialism: FPGA / SystemVerilog / HFT

Recruiter: Branch Tech Recruitment

About the opportunity

Branch Tech is connecting with FPGA Design Engineers across Chicago's proprietary trading and high-frequency trading ecosystem.

We're interested in engineers with hands-on experience developing, implementing and optimising FPGA-based systems where latency, throughput and reliability are critical.

This posting is intended to build our specialist FPGA talent network and does not represent a confirmed vacancy with a particular trading firm.

Technical areas of interest

• Developing production-quality RTL using SystemVerilog, Verilog or VHDL.
• FPGA market-data processing, packet decoding and feed handling.
• Hardware acceleration for order execution and trading infrastructure.
• Ultra-low-latency Ethernet networking and high-speed datapaths.
• FPGA verification, simulation and testbench development.
• Synthesis, place-and-route, static timing analysis and timing closure.
• Hardware debugging, performance optimisation and deployment.
• Python or C++ for testing, automation and hardware/software integration.

Experience we're looking for

We're particularly interested in candidates with commercial FPGA development experience and exposure to high-performance, latency-sensitive systems.

Previous experience within proprietary trading, market making, HFT or electronic trading is highly relevant.

However, engineers from networking, telecommunications, semiconductor or high-performance computing backgrounds are also encouraged to register their interest.

Branch Tech is developing a specialist network of FPGA engineers across the US trading market.

We want to understand your technical background, career ambitions and the types of engineering challenges that would make a future move worthwhile.

All conversations are confidential, and your profile will not be submitted to an employer without your permission.

Apply to connect with Branch Tech about future FPGA opportunities across Chicago's trading technology market.