Senior FPGA Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Chicago, New York, or London

Annual base salary: $225,000–$325,000, plus an annual discretionary bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a diversified trading firm using proprietary technology and capital to operate across global financial markets and non-traditional strategies including real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.

What you will do

• Architect and implement FPGA applications from the ground up, including synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, and documentation.
• Develop low-latency, high-throughput FPGA designs across the full development lifecycle.
• Research and evaluate FPGA hardware and emerging technologies.
• Design creative solutions to overcome FPGA and hardware limitations.
• Collaborate directly with software and other design teams.
• Debug and characterize new hardware in the lab.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer or Electrical Engineering, with 3+ years of relevant experience; a Master’s degree or higher may count toward experience.
• Strong hardware engineering experience, particularly with FPGA technology.
• Ability to lead FPGA projects autonomously from system requirements through production.
• Strong RTL logic design and verification skills, including 2+ years of Verilog experience.
• Required experience with FPGA design flows, system-on-chip architectures, memory and processor subsystems, networking, and peripheral interconnect.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP and practical experience with either Xilinx or Altera FPGA design flows.

Nice to have

• Functional verification experience using high-level methodologies such as SystemVerilog.
• Excellent research and data-gathering skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomous environment with high expectations, integrity, curiosity, and openness to challenging consensus.
• Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with discretionary employer match.
• Short- and long-term disability, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts.