Experienced FPGA Engineer

In pursuit of the lowest-latency possible, we are expanding our FPGA team. In order to strengthen this new team, we are now looking for a seasoned FPGA engineer. The clean sheet project, having started in Q3 2024, gives you plenty of opportunity to break new ground in this exciting role. You will be working together with our other experienced FPGA engineers as well as quantitative, operations, and software teams to build out new strategies and low latency solutions.
Do you have an entrepreneurial and result-driven mind-set? Are you eager to make this new mission a success? Then this is the job for you!
Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company!
Responsibilities:
Design and implement low latency components in Xilinx FPGAs
Understand, design and implement trading algorithms in FPGA in close collaboration with Trading and Research
Design, implement and verify network infrastructure in FPGA
Design, implement and verify high-speed communications interfaces
Requirements:
5 years of working experience in a similar position
Bachelor or higher degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field
FPGA development in VHDL and/or System Verilog
10G(+) Ethernet
Basic software development in Python and/or C
Cocotb and verification experience is a plus
Knowledge of Ethernet protocols eg TCP is a plus
Experience in market data and/or order entry for financial markets is a plus
Benefits:
An opportunity to work with the best in the field
Base salary starting from 100k, depending on knowledge and experience
Excellent variable pay based on your own and the firm’s performance
Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
A relocation package when moving from abroad, including relocation budget, flight coverage, house-finding service and expat support
Meals during work hours
Social events and after-work drinks
Reimbursement of travel costs
Sponsored gym membership
In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)