Hardware Engineer (FPGA)

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide.​

Virtu's Hardware Design team builds the FPGA and ASIC applications at the core of the firm's proprietary low-latency trading platform.

We are looking for an FPGA/ASIC Engineer to join us. The ideal candidate will be a creative and ambitious hardware engineer who is excited to work on our low-latency trading infrastructure. You'll work on challenging problems alongside a small, international team.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 2+ years of professional FPGA or ASIC experience (an advanced degree may substitute)
• Strong RTL design and verification skills (SystemVerilog/VHDL, cocotb)
• Familiarity with FPGA/IC design flows and vendor toolchains (Xilinx/AMD, Synopsys, Cadence)
• Working knowledge of high-speed interfaces (Ethernet/MAC/PHY, PCIe, AXI)

• Programming in Python, C++, or similar
• Back-end physical design experience
• Understanding of network protocols and packet processing (TCP/UDP, IP multicast, and hardware protocol offloading)