Senior FPGA Design Engineer / Hardware Engineer

Maven; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trading firm in London seeks an FPGA engineer to work with traders and technologists, enhancing trading strategies through advanced FPGA systems. Candidates should possess strong engineering skills and a proactive mindset, with financial experience being a plus. The role involves tackling complex problems and contributing to innovative projects within a dynamic team.

Benefits

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

Qualifications

• 5+ years FPGA experience is required.
• Candidates should be proactive and self-driven.

Responsibilities

• Work with traders and technologists to exploit FPGA systems.
• Enable efficiency of existing strategies and open new trading opportunities.

Skills

Source control management

FPGA experience

Automated verification

Problem solving

Interest in trading

Tools

Python

TCL

Job description

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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