OfficeAmsterdam; Chicago; London; New York

FPGA Engineer Job Description for Headlands Tech

Locations: Amsterdam; Chicago; London; New York

Scope:

As an FPGA Engineer at Headlands Tech, you will be responsible for digital circuit design and verification, developing in-house intellectual property, and scaling designs globally. You will work with cutting-edge hardware technologies to support the Firm's automated trading infrastructure.

Qualifications:

  • Professional experience with FPGA/ASIC design and verification
  • Experience developing reusable IPs and scaling designs to multiple target platforms
  • Solid understanding of digital design principles
  • Strong working knowledge of either SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL
  • In-depth knowledge of common EDA tools
  • Knowledge of C++ required
  • Familiarity with common scripting languages TCL/Python/Bash
  • University degree in EE, CS, CE or related technical field
  • Experience with high-speed transceivers, networking protocols, and packet processing is preferred

Day to Day:

  • Design and verify RTL implementations for trading systems
  • Develop reusable IP components that can be deployed across multiple platforms
  • Integrate hardware designs with wider technology stack
  • Script automation tasks and workflow improvements
  • Collaborate with software, research, and systems teams

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and to provide employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Headlands Tech are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. Headlands Tech will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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Headlands Technologies LLC is a global quantitative trading company based in Chicago, New York, Austin, London, Amsterdam and Singapore. Founded in July 2009, Headlands Technologies develops and implements quantitative trading strategies in exchange-traded financial products, such as equities and other securities. Headlands Technologies is a privately funded company and does not accept outside investors.

Employees
174
Industry
Financial Services
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
2009

Key team members

Serguei Popov

Serguei Popov

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