Senior FPGA Engineer

FPGA ENGINEER - ULTRA-LOW LATENCY SYSTEMS

Location: London (Hybrid: 4 days onsite)

Sector: Quant Trading / High-Performance Computing

Industry leading compensation

Quant Capital is partnering with a global trading firm building a greenfield FPGA team focused on low-latency, high-throughput hardware systems. This small, senior group will deliver high-speed compute infrastructure integrated directly into trading, research, and networking pipelines.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and implementing latency-optimised FPGA systems in Verilog/SystemVerilog
• Developing high-speed modules (PCIe, Ethernet, DDR/QDR) with deep pipelining
• Using simulation and formal tools (Verilator, Cocotb, etc.) for validation
• Working across teams (ASIC, software, infra) to co-design tightly coupled platforms
• Contributing to tooling, flow, and potentially DSL extensions

What We're Looking For

• Strong RTL skills with experience building complex, optimised designs
• Programming skills, C, C++ or similar
• Solid grasp of timing closure, datapath design, and hardware-level performance tuning
• Familiar with toolchains (Vivado, Quartus) and debugging workflows
• Comfortable working close to hardware and owning the full development cycle
• Interest in improving hardware workflows or applying high-level techniques

Bonus

• Background in trading systems, signal processing, or networking
• Experience with formal verification and/or hardware DSLs
• Knowledge of FPGA-based networking acceleration

Why Join?

• Build from scratch with a team driving real strategy and architectural decisions
• Work across the full lifecycle, from concept to deployment
• Deep technical ownership, minimal overhead, and real impact
• Collaborate with top engineers in a no-bureaucracy culture

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