Senior FPGA Architect - Low-Latency Trading Tech

P2P; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DRW is seeking an Experienced FPGA Engineer to join a trading team in Amsterdam or other global hubs. The role focuses on building low-latency FPGA applications, advancing hardware-software integration, and delivering robust, production-ready designs across the firm’s technology stack.

You will work with RTL, Verilog, SystemVerilog and standard FPGA flows to design, verify, and optimize high-throughput architectures, while collaborating with software and trading teams to meet demanding

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, Computer/Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of experience within the field; (Master’s degree or higher also counts for experience)
• Solid Hardware Engineering experience, especially with FPGA
• Highly autonomous with a can-do attitude able to lead an FPGA based project from system requirements to production
• Strong capacity to quickly evaluate FPGA based project feasibility based on hardware limitation
• Strong skills in RTL logic design (Verilog) and verification; 2+ years of experience writing Verilog
• Experience in FPGA design flow including synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis is required
• Experience with the design of system-on-chip (SOC) architectures, memory & processor subsystems, networking, and peripheral interconnect is required
• Knowledge of the TCP/IP stack
• Strong working knowledge of either XILINX or ALTERA FPGA design flow
• Experience with functional verification utilizing high-level methodologies (e.g. System Verilog) is a plus.
• Excellent research and data gathering skills

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement new FPGA applications (synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis, documentation) from the ground up
• Research and evaluate a variety of cutting-edge FPGA hardware and technologies
• Propose creative solutions to overcome FPGA/hardware limitations
• Liaise directly with software, trading and other design teams
• Conduct lab debugging and characterization of new hardware
• Comfortable doing production support and live debugging
• Researching new techniques, tools and architectures

Skills

RTL Logic Design

Verilog

FPGA Design Flow

Synthesis & Timing Analysis

System Verilog

Autonomous Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Computer/Electrical Engineering

Tools

XILINX

ALTERA

Job description

DRW is seeking an Experienced FPGA Engineer to join a trading team in Amsterdam or other global hubs. The role focuses on building low-latency FPGA applications, advancing hardware-software integration, and delivering robust, production-ready designs across the firm’s technology stack.

You will work with RTL, Verilog, SystemVerilog and standard FPGA flows to design, verify, and optimize high-throughput architectures, while collaborating with software and trading teams to meet demanding