FPGA Developer - Quant Trading

FPGA DEVELOPER – LOW-LATENCY HARDWARE DESIGN
Global Quantitative Trading Firm

Highly competitive, industry leading compensation

London – Hybrid (4 days onsite / 1 remote)

Quant Capital is hiring on behalf of a leading trading firm that is building a new specialist FPGA engineering team. This is a greenfield opportunity to design and deliver high-performance hardware platforms used in latency-critical environments. The team is being established to take full ownership of FPGA development previously handled across other functions.

This role is ideal for an FPGA engineer who can move beyond textbook RTL, write hardware-aware designs, and has strong instincts around speed, area, and resource optimisation.

Role Overview

You’ll be working on complex, high-throughput designs deployed to large FPGAs. Expect to handle fast I/O (Ethernet, PCIe, external memory), deep pipelines, and high-density logic. The team uses Verilog/SystemVerilog, leverages Cocotb/Verilator for testing, and applies formal methods selectively. You’ll collaborate closely with software and ASIC teams to extend existing platforms and deliver new high-impact projects.

This role offers scope for ownership from day one, with a long-term roadmap and autonomy over architecture, implementation, and methodology.

Key Responsibilities

• Design high-performance, resource-efficient FPGA architectures
• Work on projects involving high-speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, etc.) and external memory
• Translate high-level functional specs into structured RTL with synthesis in mind
• Collaborate with ASIC and software teams on integrated platform development
• Contribute to internal tooling and methodology refinement
• Build testbenches and validation flows (Cocotb, Verilator); apply formal methods where needed

What You’ll Need

• Deep experience in Verilog or SystemVerilog
• Strong understanding of FPGA internals and how to structure hardware to target them effectively
• Experience working on large-scale designs (high throughput, multiple clock domains, deep pipelines)
• Familiar with high-speed serial interfaces (e.g. Ethernet, USB 3.1, Fibre Channel)
• Practical experience balancing timing closure, area, and power trade-offs
• Familiarity with test and verification methodologies (Cocotb preferred)

Nice to Have

• Experience with low-latency applications or trading environments
• Exposure to formal verification tools
• Comfort working in small, agile engineering teams with broad ownership

Why Apply?

• Shape the foundation of a new FPGA function in a high-impact environment
• Work on meaningful, deeply technical projects with long-term scope
• Collaborate with elite teams across software and silicon
• Join a business where engineering drives product and results
• Clean code, smart hardware, and real ownership from day one

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