Senior FPGA Engineer

Senior FPGA Engineer, Chicago, IL

We are looking to hire a highly talented Senior FPGA Engineer to join the technology team.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with the technology and business teams to integrate FPGA and hardware solutions into trading and research platforms.
• Research and work with industry leading hardware and FPGA products.
• Work alongside industry experts in the fields of systems engineering, finance, and technology.
• Lead/mentor junior team members.
• Take ownership of and lead projects from start to finish including design, roll out, and testing.
• Work on challenging and dynamic problems in a team atmosphere.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Ethernet experience.
• Industry experience is preferred. Someone in the defense industry or has solid experience outside of the trading industry can be considered as well.
• 4+ years experience in FPGA Design including hardware architecture, simulation, system integration, hardware validation and testing.
• Experience with Xilinx, Vivado, and ModelSim.
• Familiarity with Verilog, scripting and/or programming, and Linux.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be willing to take ownership and lead others.
• Problem solvers who are driven, self-motivated, and "outside of the box" thinkers.
• Motivated, dependable, and responsible team players.

*Looking for candidates from top tier universities with a strong GPA. PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or engineering is preferred. Will consider candidates who have a Master's degree along with work experience. Top universities include Massachusetts Institute of Technology/MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, Harvard University, University of California-Berkeley, Stanford University, University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology, University of California, Los Angeles, Columbia University, New York University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Yale University, Cornell University, Brown University, etc.

Benefits include medical insurance, retirement plan, PTO, etc. Salary: 80K+ DOE.

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