Ultra-Low Latency FPGA Engineer for Trading Systems

Tradermath; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC is a leading global market maker where FPGA engineers design and deploy ultra-low latency hardware that parses market data and executes trades in nanoseconds. You will work with traders and technologists to translate strategies into real-time hardware logic.

Join a team focused on cutting-edge performance, simulation, testing, and benchmarking to sustain a rapid, reliable trading edge across multiple asset classes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in financial markets, exchange protocols (FIX, OUCH, ITCH) or FPGA-software co-design.
• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with FPGA/ASIC technologies and HDL languages.
• Strong skills in Python, C, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and deploy FPGA-based solutions for parsing market data and executing trades with ultra-low latency.
• Collaborate with traders and developers to translate strategy requirements into real-time hardware logic.
• Analyse and optimize system performance from transceiver tuning to logic layout.
• Develop and maintain a robust simulation and testing framework for reliability.
• Monitor and improve FPGA performance in live trading environments through benchmarking.
• Explore emerging technologies to continuously sharpen hardware advantage.

Skills

FPGA design

Low-latency optimization

Python/C/C++

Networking protocols

VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

Synplify

Job description

IMC is a leading global market maker where FPGA engineers design and deploy ultra-low latency hardware that parses market data and executes trades in nanoseconds. You will work with traders and technologists to translate strategies into real-time hardware logic.

Join a team focused on cutting-edge performance, simulation, testing, and benchmarking to sustain a rapid, reliable trading edge across multiple asset classes.