FPGA Developer

NX Block Trades Pvt Ltd is an innovative high-frequency trading firm, leveraging advanced technologies to create ultra-low-latency trading solutions. We are seeking an FPGA Developer with deep technical expertise to design, develop, and optimize FPGA-based trading solutions for high-frequency and medium-frequency trading environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of FPGA-based trading solutions aimed at achieving ultra-low-latency in HFT (High-Frequency Trading) and MFT (Medium-Frequency Trading) environments.

• Perform FPGA architecture exploration, design partitioning, and performance analysis to optimize system performance.

• Develop and implement assembly-level coding at both hardware and kernel levels to ensure efficient FPGA performance.

• Test and validate FPGA designs for correctness, robustness, and compliance with functional and performance requirements.

• Work with teams across the firm, including software engineers, traders, and quantitative analysts, to integrate FPGA-based solutions into trading algorithms, order management systems, and market data processing pipelines.

• Lead efforts in setting up FPGA solutions over collocated servers at exchanges for improved latency reduction.

• Provide guidance on networking fundamentals and ensure seamless integration with trading platforms, especially NEAT, BOLT, and NNF systems.

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in FPGA development for HFT firms.

• Hands-on experience in FPGA architecture exploration, design partitioning, and optimization.

• Proficiency in hardware-level and kernel-level coding, with strong experience in assembly language.

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals as applied to FPGA-based systems.

• Proven ability to perform FPGA design validation, testing, and performance tuning.

• Experience working with collocated servers at exchanges. • Must have experience integrating FPGA systems with NEAT, BOLT, and NNF systems.

• Top-tier educational background from Tier 1 colleges with a Master’s/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.

• Strong mathematical skills and the ability to apply mathematical principles to hardware design and performance optimization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s/PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science from a Tier 1 institute.

• Hands-on experience working in high-frequency trading (HFT) environments.

• Strong knowledge of FPGA development frameworks and synthesis tools.

• Demonstrated experience in networking, systems design, and FPGA performance analysis