About the position
Hudson River Trading’s coders work on small, highly productive, and efficient teams that design, improve, and maintain the technology that powers worldwide trading — at HRT, the code you write is our business. You’ll have an opportunity to work alongside a range of developers across the firm who write trading algorithms, monitor trading, build and maintain a world-class research environment, and more! As an FPGA Software Engineer you will be working at the cutting edge of low-latency trading, collaborating closely with strategy developers and hardware developers to build best-in-class trading systems. This is a role with many hats; you'll help conceptualize new kinds of trading, optimize low level code, design new APIs, deploy and monitor live trading systems, build tools and testing infrastructure, and plan physical networking layouts. Your job will be to help figure out what hardware to build, how to build it, and then how to seamlessly integrate it into the existing trading environment.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize new kinds of trading
- Optimize low level code
- Design new APIs
- Deploy and monitor live trading systems
- Build tools and testing infrastructure
- Plan physical networking layouts
- Help figure out what hardware to build and how to build it
- Seamlessly integrate hardware into the existing trading environment
Requirements
- Excellent design, debugging, and problem solving skills
- C++ expertise is required
- Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication
- Previous exposure to Verilog and FPGAs preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Ability to analyze and fix problems quickly
- Ability to describe software designs at a high level and low level
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with low-latency trading systems
- Interest in coding, tinkering, and exploring new technologies
Benefits
- Discretionary performance-based bonuses
- Competitive benefits package
