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Senior FPGA Engineer

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Senior FPGA Engineer – DV Equities

About Us:
Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 450 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Role Overview:
We are looking for an exceptional Senior FPGA Engineer to join our semi-systematic equities team. In this role, you will architect and deliver ultra-low-latency FPGA trading systems that drive our competitive edge across global equity and futures exchanges. This position offers the opportunity to lead, innovate, and push the limits of hardware performance in a fast-paced trading environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

  • Lead and mentor a team of FPGA engineers developing next-generation hardware solutions for market making.
  • Architect and implement ultra-low-latency trading systems optimized for global equity and futures markets.
  • Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for FPGA-based trading infrastructure.
  • Partner closely with quantitative researchers, software developers, and network engineers to deliver integrated, high-performance trading platforms.

System Development

  • Design and implement high-throughput FPGA firmware for market data feed handling and order execution.
  • Build modular, reusable, and scalable FPGA architectures supporting exchanges such as NYSE, NASDAQ and CBOE.
  • Develop robust testing frameworks and automated deployment pipelines to ensure stability and reliability in production.

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of hands-on FPGA design and development experience, ideally within high-frequency or market-making systems.
  • Expert-level proficiency in SystemVerilog targeting Xilinx platforms.
  • Deep understanding of networking and low-level protocols (10G Ethernet, multicast, MAC/PCS layers).
  • Proven track record in ultra-low-latency hardware design and performance optimization.

 

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