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Experienced FPGA Engineer- Prop Trading Firm

eFinancialCareersAmsterdam🇳🇱NetherlandsPosted 8 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

As an experienced FPGA Engineer at a leading prop trading firm, you'll have the chance to design cutting-edge, low-latency solutions from the ground up, working alongside quantitative and software teams to drive new trading strategies. This hybrid role is perfect for entrepreneurial engineers eager to make a significant impact and grow their careers within a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Embrace this exciting opportunity to innovate and contribute to a successful, growing company.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

In pursuit of the lowest latency possible, my client is expanding its FPGA team. In order to strengthen this new team, they are now looking for a seasoned FPGA engineer. The clean sheet project, having started in Q3 2024, gives you plenty of opportunity to break new ground in this exciting role. You will be working together with other experienced FPGA engineers, as well as quantitative, operations, and software teams to build out new strategies and low-latency solutions.

Do you have an entrepreneurial and result-driven mindset? Are you eager to make this new mission a success? Then this is the job for you!

This firm offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company!

Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement low-latency components in Xilinx FPGAs
  • Understand, design and implement trading algorithms in FPGA in close collaboration with Trading and Research
  • Design, implement and verify network infrastructure in FPGA & high-speed communications interfaces

Requirements:
  • 5 years of working experience in a similar position
  • Bachelor or higher degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field
  • FPGA development in VHDL and/or System Verilog
  • 10G(+) Ethernet
  • Basic software development in Python and/or C
  • Cocotb and verification experience is a plus
  • Knowledge of Ethernet protocols - e.g. TCP - is a plus
  • Experience in market data and/or order entry for financial markets is a plus


Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you, or you'd like more information, please get in touch:

George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252

Skills

FPGA
VHDL
Verilog

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