Optiver
FPGA Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States · Full-time · Posted Jan 14, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in CE, EE, CS, or related technical field
About the job
Designs and integrates FPGA-based hardware to accelerate Optiver’s network infrastructure and trading systems with low-latency, high-speed solutions.
What you'll do
- Develop hardware designs to accelerate network infrastructure and trading system components.
- Research low-latency techniques and platforms and identify opportunities to integrate them into trading systems.
- Collaborate with traders, software developers, infrastructure engineers, and third-party vendors.
What they ask for
- Experience designing, coding, testing, and verifying FPGAs and/or ASICs.
- Experience coding in VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, and C or C++.
- Experience with RTL synthesis and writing timing, area, and other relevant constraints.
- Experience with digital simulators and self-checking test benches.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting post-silicon bring-up and debugging.
- Ability to work closely with software developers to rapidly deliver integrated systems.
Tools
FPGAs, ASICs, VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, C, C++, RTL
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