Senior FPGA Engineer — Ultra-Low Latency Trading Systems

SIG Susquehanna; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Susquehanna is seeking an experienced FPGA Engineer to bridge hardware and trading, owning end-to-end hardware solutions from design to deployment. You will collaborate with researchers and developers to translate complex trading problems into scalable hardware, and help evolve ultra-low latency environments.

Ideal candidates have extensive FPGA/ASIC architecture experience, HDL expertise, and familiarity with Ethernet/PCIe interfaces, plus a degree in a related field.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in FPGA or ASIC high level architecture, design and development using VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces like Ethernet and PCIe preferred.
• Experience with languages like C#, C, or Java is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Quant Researchers and Strategy Developers to translate requirements into hardware design.
• Architect and design solutions to accelerate infrastructure, including hardware selection and functional blocks.
• Implement solutions from board to API and deploy to production environment.
• Collaborate with trading teams to iterate and improve hardware performance.

Skills

FPGA/ASIC architecture

HDL languages (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVeri

High-speed interfaces (Ethernet/PCIe)

Programming in C#/C/Java

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering/CS/Engineering/Math or related

Job description

Susquehanna is seeking an experienced FPGA Engineer to bridge hardware and trading, owning end-to-end hardware solutions from design to deployment. You will collaborate with researchers and developers to translate complex trading problems into scalable hardware, and help evolve ultra-low latency environments.

Ideal candidates have extensive FPGA/ASIC architecture experience, HDL expertise, and familiarity with Ethernet/PCIe interfaces, plus a degree in a related field.