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About the Role

Our Software Engineers build proprietary trading systems that directly impact financial markets, leveraging technology to solve complex problems. Our trading strategies require microsecond responses, precise pricing of diverse financial instruments, and extremely low error tolerance. We continuously refine, store, and analyze terabytes of market data. Our user interfaces provide coherent, responsive real-time visualizations and intuitive control of complex systems. Our core systems offer a stable, performant, and trusted foundation. At Optiver, we are engineers, not just coders, working closely with traders to identify and solve business problems with a disciplined, scientific approach, creating simple, well-architected solutions that meet dynamic needs.

Responsibilities

Design, realize, test, and bring up custom RF hardware and subsystems, including PCBAs.
Develop HF receive and transmit front ends, including LNAs, filters, matching networks, and amplifier integration.
Characterize and debug end-to-end RF system performance.
Create test plans and drive system-level validation.
Collaborate with software, infrastructure, and network teams for successful large-scale RF system deployment.
Work in a multidisciplinary team, owning designs from concept to production.
Understand regulatory requirements.

Requirements

BS in electrical or computer engineering.
3+ years of industry experience.
Hands-on experience designing and debugging RF hardware and systems.
Experience with HF design, including front ends, filtering, matching, and amplifier characterization.
Strong understanding of receive-chain performance, including gain, noise figure, linearity, stability, and isolation.
Experience isolating issues in transmit and receive chains, including non-linear distortion and coupling mechanisms.
Experience with EMI debugging and familiarity with EMC compliance and mitigation.
Experience with PCBA design and board-level system integration.
Comfortable using RF lab equipment and writing basic Python for bring-up, automation, or analysis.
Working knowledge of safety and regulatory requirements relevant to deploying RF systems, EMI/EMC, and safe operation of high-power RF equipment.

Skills

RF hardware and systems design and debugging
HF design
Front ends, filtering, matching, amplifier characterization
Receive-chain performance analysis (gain, noise figure, linearity, stability, isolation)
Isolating issues in transmit and receive chains (non-linear distortion, coupling mechanisms)
EMI debugging
EMC compliance and mitigation
PCBA design
Board-level system integration
RF lab equipment usage
Python programming for bring-up, automation, or analysis
Safety and regulatory requirements for RF systems, EMI/EMC, and high-power RF equipment
Microwave design
Antenna fundamentals
Ham radio license
RF simulation tools (ADS, AWR, HFSS, CST)
Spice simulation
Working with external vendors, labs, or manufacturing partners
Supporting compliance workflows (pre-compliance testing, documentation, coordination with external test labs or certification bodies)
FPGA or microcontroller programming

Location

Austin

Work Type

On-site

Experience Level

3+ years of industry experience

Education Level

BS in electrical or computer engineering
Master or Ph.D. preferred

Salary/Compensations

Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure

Benefits

Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure
401(k) match up to 50%
Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

About the Company

Optiver is a global market maker driven by technology.
Our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency, and stabilizing the market.
We prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of markets for all participants.
As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges globally.
Our Austin office serves as the firm’s innovation nucleus, focusing on quantitative research, software development, and hardware engineering.
The Austin team advances our investments in machine learning, research infrastructure, and big data computing.
The Austin office is located in The Domain neighborhood, offering a vibrant setting with world-class music, great food, and outdoor spaces.

Equal Opportunity

Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.