BlackEdge Capital
Trading Strategy Software Engineer
Chicago
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
C++Machine LearningFPGAResearchCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- This is a focused, ambitious initiative at an early stage, which means real ownership and the chance to shape the systems and the codebase from the ground up.
- This is a role for someone energized by sitting at the intersection of low-level systems, custom hardware, and applied research, where every nanosecond on the path from signal to order matters.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and relentlessly optimize nanosecond level trading systems in C++, owning code from architecture through live production.
- Partner closely with hardware engineers on FPGA integration, co-designing the software/hardware logic split and communication across that boundary.
- Systems depth: Deep understanding of operating system design, cache behavior, memory, and concurrency and how they can be tuned to extract performance.
- Low latency mindset: A demonstrated ability to design and reason about latency critical software
- Members of our executive team are hands on in this work right now, so you will build alongside the people setting the firm's long-term technical and trading direction.
Requirements
- Collaboration: You enjoy working across boundaries and communicate well with people from diverse backgrounds and skills.
Nice to have
- Hands on experience with FPGAs, HLS, or close software/hardware co design.
- Kernel bypass networking (ef_vi / OpenOnload, DPDK) and low-level network programming.
- Familiarity with futures markets or market microstructure.
- About BlackEdge Capital
- BlackEdge Capital is a proprietary options market maker built on industry leading technology and a deeply collaborative culture.
- We compete at the highest technical level in electronic markets, and we win by pairing exceptional engineering with incisive research.
- Compensation is highly competitive, with significant upside clearly and explicitly tied to firm profit and individual performance.
- Our model is transparent: bonuses are a share of firm profit, and because your share scales with your performance, a strong year for you and the firm compounds.
Compensation
- is highly competitive, with significant upside clearly and explicitly tied to firm profit and individual performance.
Benefits
- Work directly with researchers to take machine learning signals from idea to development to production by integrating them into our automated trading system.
- You will own performance critical software in C++, co-design the hot path with our FPGA hardware engineers, and work shoulder to shoulder with researchers to move machine learning models from idea to live trading.
Company info
- What We're Looking For
Equal opportunity
- bonuses are a share of firm profit, and because your share scales with your performance, a strong year for you and the firm compounds.
- BlackEdge Capital is an equal opportunity employer.
- We evaluate candidates on the merit of their work and welcome applicants of every background.
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