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Bala Cynwyd, PA - USA

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Overview

As one of the worlds largest market makers SIG was one of the first high frequency trading firms to pioneer the use of hardwareaccelerated trading systems. As an FPGA Engineer at SIG you will sit at the cusp of hardware and trading and help us as we continue to build some of the industrys most cutting edge ultralow latency trading environments.

At SIG we dont believe in silos. We believe that people do their best work when they have the freedom to explore experiment and collaborate with other brilliant minds. As part of our FPGA team you will be trusted to own your hardware solutions from end to end. You will partner closely with our Strategy Developers and Quantitative Researchers to translate complex trading problems into scalable and highly performant hardware solutions. Our FPGA Engineers are heavily involved in FPGA architecture design simulation and testing. The work that they do makes a direct impact on our trading business whether thats working on larger strategic projects or smaller projects with very short design cycles!

Prior experience in trading or finance is helpful but not required. We love talented FPGA Engineers who come from all different backgrounds! If you enjoy tackling performance intensive challenges and want to help evolve the way the industry uses FPGAs we encourage you to apply!

In this role you will:

  • Partner with Quantitative Researchers and Strategy Developers to understand challenges and translate requirements into hardware design
  • Architect and design solutions to accelerate key areas of our infrastructure including hardware selection and key functional blocks
  • Implement solutions from the board to API and deploy out to a production environment
  • Work with trading teams and Strategy Developers to continue iterating and improving the performance of our hardware.

What were looking for

  • 8 years of experience in FPGA or ASIC high level architecture design and development using VHDL Verilog or System Verilog is required
  • Prior experience working with highspeed interfaces such as Ethernet and PCIe is preferred
  • Experience with highlevel software languages like C# C or Java is a plus
  • Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or related discipline or its foreign equivalent

About SIG

SIG is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probablistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading Technology and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.

What we do

We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes with a focus on derivatives trading. Through maket making and market taking we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad our trading desks are highly specialized allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

SIG does not post compensation information externally.Any compensation information associated with this job posting was not provided by SIG.


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