FPGA Engineer

Talenza; Sydney; On-site; AUD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenza, a leading high-frequency trading firm in Sydney CBD, is seeking an FPGA Engineer for a permanent role. You will work at the intersection of hardware, software and trading to build FPGA-based solutions used in market connectivity and execution platforms.

The role emphasizes nanosecond-level performance, latency optimisation, and collaboration with traders and developers to translate trading requirements into efficient hardware. Candidates will explore new FPGA technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience designing FPGA or ASIC using VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Strong digital design skills incl. pipelining, timing, CDC.
• Low-latency, high-throughput hardware-software integration experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement FPGA solutions for market data and trade systems.
• Collaborate with traders and developers to translate requirements into hardware.
• Improve performance via profiling, latency analysis, and optimisations.
• Build testing, simulation, and validation frameworks for production reliability.
• Explore new FPGA/hardware technologies to maintain competitive edge.

Skills

FPGA/ASIC design

Digital design

Low-latency

Networking protocols

Programming: Python/C/C++

Tools

VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog

Job description

FPGA Engineer - Permanent - Sydney - Trading

About the role:

• High-Frequency Trading firm
• $200,000 - $250,000 Base + Super + Bonus
• Sydney CBD
• Permanent Opportunity

A leading high frequency trading firm is looking for an FPGA Engineer to join its high-performance engineering team in Sydney.

Working at the intersection of hardware, software and trading, you'll develop FPGA-based solutions that sit at the core of the firm's market connectivity and execution platforms. This is an opportunity to work on technology where performance is measured in nanoseconds and every optimisation can create a real competitive advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement FPGA solutions for market data processing, order handling and trade execution systems.
• Partner with traders and developers to transform trading requirements into highly efficient hardware solutions.
• Drive performance improvements across critical systems through optimisation, profiling and latency analysis.
• Build and maintain testing, simulation and validation frameworks to ensure reliability in production environments.
• Contribute to the firm's ongoing technology advantage by researching and adopting new FPGA and hardware technologies.

Key Skills:

• Experience designing and developing FPGA or ASIC solutions using VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog.
• Strong understanding of digital design concepts including pipelining, flow control and clock domain crossing.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems
• Exposure to networking and exchange connectivity, including protocols such as Ethernet, TCP, UDP, FIX, ITCH or OUCH.
• Programming capability in Python, C++ or C, with experience working across both hardware and software environments.