Senior FPGA Design Engineer / Hardware Engineer

Maven; City Of London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading proprietary trading firm in London is seeking an FPGA Engineer to enhance trading strategies through innovative hardware solutions. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of FPGA experience and a proactive mindset to drive projects that unlock new trading opportunities. This role offers competitive compensation and a collaborative environment focused on cutting-edge technology.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Annual discretionary bonus

Fully catered meals

25 days’ annual leave

Private healthcare and life assurance

Private Gym

Monthly company events

Qualifications

• Experience with FPGA systems, ideally 5+ years.
• Capability to tackle complex engineering problems.
• Interest in financial markets is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work with traders to improve trading strategies using FPGA systems.
• Engage in greenfield projects to enhance trading opportunities.
• Collaborate with a diverse team to explore competitive advantages.

Skills

Source control management

5+ years FPGA experience

Automated verification

HLS or other DSP flow experience for FPGA

Comfortable attacking new and unfamiliar problems

Interest in trading

Tools

Python

TCL

Low latency design

ASIC

Network and packet processing

Trading systems

Job description

About the Company

London

About the Company:

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm allocating internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders, engineers, and technologists, unified by an unwavering dedication to enhance our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for globally listed derivatives. We leverage groundbreaking execution and pricing technologies to elevate and improve how financial markets operate.

Overview

Where technology meets trading, the Maven FPGA team is pushing the bleeding edge of hardware and proprietary designs to maintain and gain advantage in an increasingly competitive environment. With operations in London, New York, Hong Kong and Chicago, we build technology in support of global trading operations across multiple exchanges, asset classes, and trading strategies. Our teams are small and nimble, with a firm commitment to growth, and a strategic view of investment in people, tools, and the necessary platforms to extend our leadership.

The Role

Within our team, you will work with traders and technologists to seek and exploit opportunities to gain competitive advantage through FPGA systems. By means of reduced latencies, higher throughput, or increased robustness, you will enable the company to increase the efficiency of existing strategies and open up entirely new trading opportunities previously inaccessible. With a number of greenfield projects in scope, candidates who are proactive and self-driven can grow into leadership roles for the firm’s future. Whilst financial experience is a plus, your engineering talents, problem solving abilities, and eagerness to take on new challenges are of significantly higher importance to us.

The skills you will have

• Source control management
• 5+ years FPGA experience
• Automated verification
• HLS or other DSP flow experience for FPGA
• Comfortable attacking new and unfamiliar problems
• Interest in trading

Things we would like to see but are not essential

• Python, TCL
• Low latency design
• ASIC
• Network and packet processing
• Trading systems

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks.
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

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