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.
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