Optiver
FPGA Engineer
$200K
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Full-time · Posted Jan 14, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in CE, EE, CS, or related technical field.
About the job
Design and develop FPGA-based systems that accelerate trading infrastructure and low-latency trading components.
What you'll do
- Develop high-speed hardware designs for network infrastructure and trading systems.
- Research low-latency techniques and platforms and identify opportunities to integrate them into trading systems.
- Collaborate with traders, software developers, and infrastructure engineers; manage third-party vendor relationships.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in CE, EE, CS, or related technical field.
- Experience designing, coding, testing, and verifying FPGAs and/or ASICs.
- Experience coding in VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, and C or C++.
- Experience with RTL synthesis, writing timing and area constraints, digital simulators, and self-checking test benches.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting post-silicon bring-up and debugging.
Pay
$200,000 — $200,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
FPGAs, ASICs, VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, C, C++, RTL
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