In pursuit of the lowest-latency possible, we are expanding our FPGA team. In order to strengthen this new team, we are now looking for a seasoned FPGA engineer. The clean sheet project, having started in Q3 2024, gives you plenty of opportunity to break new ground in this exciting role. You will be working together with our other experienced FPGA engineers as well as quantitative, operations, and software teams to build out new strategies and low latency solutions.
Do you have an entrepreneurial and result-driven mind-set? Are you eager to make this new mission a success? Then this is the job for you!
Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company!
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement low latency components in Xilinx FPGAs
- Understand, design and implement trading algorithms in FPGA in close collaboration with Trading and Research
- Design, implement and verify network infrastructure in FPGA
- Design, implement and verify high-speed communications interfaces
Requirements:
- 5 years of working experience in a similar position
- Bachelor or higher degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field
- FPGA development in VHDL and/or System Verilog
- 10G(+) Ethernet
- Basic software development in Python and/or C
- Cocotb and verification experience is a plus
- Knowledge of Ethernet protocols eg TCP is a plus
- Experience in market data and/or order entry for financial markets is a plus
Benefits:
- An opportunity to work with the best in the field
- Base salary starting from 100k, depending on knowledge and experience
- Excellent variable pay based on your own and the firm’s performance
- Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
- A relocation package when moving from abroad, including relocation budget, flight coverage, house-finding service and expat support
- Meals during work hours
- Social events and after-work drinks
- Reimbursement of travel costs
- Sponsored gym membership
- In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)
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What We Do
Da Vinci was founded in 2015 after a group of passionate trading experts found themselves desiring a new way of working. They wanted to do things differently. At Da Vinci, our goal is to build the best proprietary trading house in the world by doing just that. We strive to keep our work smart and innovative, making the most of our team’s strategic minds to challenge existing ways of thinking. We’ve established a unique approach to trading and have high standards for company culture. We are headquartered in the home of the world’s first stock market — Amsterdam — and spend each day immersed in the city’s rich financial and trading history.
Becoming the best in the world means building a team of first-rate talent with the most innovative ideas. The real value comes from how we work and grow together, making working at Da Vinci challenging and rewarding. We have a lot of fun and truly enjoy what we do; at Da Vinci, we value collaboration, so you can find traders, software engineers, researchers and founders working closely together every day. We are nonhierarchical, support employees moving flexibly within the firm and place no limit on personal growth. No matter their role, everyone is key to sustainably growing Da Vinci into the business we know it can be.
We value excellence in everything we do, encourage employees to take ownership of their work. We believe that our colleagues must consistently feel stimulated and supported in order to reach their full potential and achieve our ambitious goals.
