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About the Role
Hardware Engineers at Optiver build hardware-based trading systems, from low latency algorithms to high bandwidth computation. They own the entire development process, creating bespoke solutions for complex trading problems. Their systems are critical for market stability.
Responsibilities
- Accelerate network infrastructure and trading system components with high speed hardware designs.
- Research new low-latency techniques and platforms and identify opportunities for integration with our trading system.
- Work in a multidisciplinary team of traders, software developers, and infrastructure engineers.
- Leverage the best hardware available or build in-house versions to ensure our FPGAs can interface with cutting edge server hardware.
- Manage relationships with 3rd party vendors.
Requirements
- Experience designing, coding, testing, and verifying FPGAs and/or ASICs.
- Experience coding in VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog as well as C or C++.
- Experience with RTL synthesis, writing timing, area, and other relevant constraints.
- Experience with digital simulators and self-checking test benches.
- Experience supporting post-silicon bring-up and debugging a plus.
- Ability to work closely with software developers to rapidly deliver integrated systems.
Skills
- VHDL
- Verilog
- SystemVerilog
- C
- C++
- RTL synthesis
- FPGA design
- ASIC design
- Digital simulation
- Test bench development
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in CE, EE, CS, or related technical field.
Salary/Compensations
- Highly competitive compensation package
- Global profit-sharing pool
- Performance-based bonus structure
- 401(k) match up to 50%
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Mental health coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Disability coverage
- Life coverage
- 25 paid vacation days
- Market holidays
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Snacks
- Regular social events
- Clubs
- Sporting leagues
About the Company
- Optiver's mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilising the market.
- Optiver is one of the largest market making institutions, respected on 100+ exchanges globally.
- The Austin office is the firm’s innovation nucleus, focusing on quantitative research, software and hardware engineering.
- Optiver heavily invests in machine learning, research infrastructure, and big data computing.
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.