Akuna Capital

Akuna Capital

Senior FPGA Engineer

Chicago, IL · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
PythonBashData StructuresAlgorithmsFPGAVHDLVerilogElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignCollaboration

About the role

  • About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation.
  • Members of the Hardware Development team will work with cutting-edge FPGA technology and high-performance computing architectures - owning projects end-to-end and making Akuna's systems faster and smarter.

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with the Low Latenc y, Trading and other teams to foster and develop ideas that improve trading systems' performance and competitiveness
  • Develop and maintain RTL in Verilog / S ystemVerilog
  • Write and maintain verification environments
  • Design optimization for timing closure
  • Develop and maintain project documentation
  • Own projects - driving project progress ion from inception, requirements, architecture, design entry, timing closure and verification

Nice to have

  • 10+ years of experience in FPGA or ASIC digital logic desig n - network traffic experience a strong plus
  • Deep Verilog/ SystemVerilog or VHDL skills
  • Solid grasp of static timing analysis, synthesis, and place-and-route tools
  • Familiarity with algorithms, data structures, and verification/unit testing workflows
  • Python and Bash scripting fluency
  • Enthusiasm for collaboration with other FPGA team members as well as members from software and trading teams
  • Open mindedness for novel development approaches and architectures
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering, or related field

Skills

  • They opened the firm's first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world - Chicago.
  • Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London, and Singapore.

Company info

  • We are looking for Senior FPGA Engineers to accelerate various portions of our trading platform.

This listing is sourced directly from Akuna Capital's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.