full-time
FPGA Design Engineer – Market Data & Trading Systems
Branch Tech
- Employer
- Branch Tech
- Location
- Chicago
- Working pattern
- on-site
About the role
Develop, implement, and optimize production-quality FPGA systems for market-data processing, packet decoding, order execution, and trading infrastructure. Verify and debug hardware, perform synthesis and timing closure, and optimize high-speed datapaths for latency, throughput, and reliability. The posting seeks commercial FPGA development experience and exposure to high-performance, latency-sensitive systems. Experience in proprietary trading, market making, HFT, or electronic trading is relevant, while candidates from networking, telecommunications, semiconductor, or high-performance computing backgrounds are also encouraged.