Senior FPGA Engineer – High-Performance Trading

Harrington Starr; Greater London; On-site; GBP 89,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrington Starr is seeking an FPGA Engineer to join our technology team in London or New York, onsite. The role focuses on high-performance FPGA hardware for electronic trading, collaborating with software engineers and traders to deploy latency-sensitive solutions across trading desks.

You will own significant FPGA applications with exposure to RTL design, synthesis, timing, and networking protocols, developing robust verification and testing infrastructure in a Linux environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional FPGA engineering experience.
• Strong VHDL experience.
• Experience with high-speed design/protocols.
• Knowledge in networking, computer architecture or verification.
• Experience across the full FPGA development lifecycle.
• Comfortable working within a Linux environment.
• C/C++ knowledge.
• Strong coding and hardware design practices.

Responsibilities

• Design FPGA applications from the ground up.
• Work across RTL design, synthesis, place & route and static timing analysis.
• Develop high-performance FPGA solutions for electronic trading.
• Work with high-speed networking and protocols.
• Build robust testing and verification infrastructure.
• Collaborate with C++/software engineers to integrate FPGA applications.
• Optimize hardware/software interfaces.
• Work with traders and technologists on performance and latency challenges.

Skills

FPGA design

VHDL

C/C++

Linux

Low-latency

Networking

Hardware design

Job description

Harrington Starr is seeking an FPGA Engineer to join our technology team in London or New York, onsite. The role focuses on high-performance FPGA hardware for electronic trading, collaborating with software engineers and traders to deploy latency-sensitive solutions across trading desks.

You will own significant FPGA applications with exposure to RTL design, synthesis, timing, and networking protocols, developing robust verification and testing infrastructure in a Linux environment.