Chicagotrading

Senior FPGA Engineer

Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$225k-$250kDetected 4 days ago

PythonC++Code ReviewFPGAVerilogHardware DesignTCP/IPResearch

About the role

Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making.
Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology.
For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient.

Collaborate with senior technology leaders to continuously improve our trading platform design.
Build a deep understanding of trading workflows, quantitative models, and system performance needs while working with a multidisciplinary team.
Develop an implementation roadmap in partnership with Quant and Trading to deliver incremental improvements in trading performance and long-term architectural innovation.
Lead design implementation efforts, contribute to team code reviews, and champion best practices around performance, logic, standard methodologies and maintainability issues to ensure code-level consistency and scalability.
As a member, you'll work closely with other specialists, traders, and quants to design and build the next generation of end-to-end trading systems.
While helping craft our development environment and processes, you'll architect solutions, influence design choices across teams, and see your work translate into real-time impact.

Proven experience and expertise with FPGA development.
Advanced proficiency using HDLs, with an emphasis on SystemVerilog or VHDL.
Comfortable working in Python and/or C++ for developing tools, testbenches, and integrations.
Demonstrated understanding of computer architectures.
Enthusiasm for applying modern, agile design and testing practices.

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally.
(Disclaimer: interns and contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence.
Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
At CTC, we're looking for a Senior FPGA Engineer to join our FPGA development team to do just that and more.
At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered.

We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an
equal opportunity employer.
If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com.

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