Senior FPGA Engineer

Description

About Exegy

Exegy is a global leader in intelligent market data, advanced trading systems, and future-proof technology. Exegy serves as a trusted partner to the complete ecosystem of the buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, and financial services technology firms around the globe. For more information, please visit www.exegy.com.

What you’ll do

At the heart of a mixed software and hardware team you’ll be a key member of the Trading agile team of Exegy responsible for trading solutions around the following products: 

• nxFeed: A full feature feed handler which streamlines market data application development by processing data feeds on FPGA and making them available to applications via a simple, normalized API 
• nxAccess:  A fully featured execution engine with an FPGA algorithm sandbox allowing users to preload orders in hardware, receive market data then trigger & update those orders then send to the trading venue – with the speed and performance of hardware assisted by the flexibility of software 

You will work in a team consisting of software & hardware engineers, driven by one Engineering Manager in close relation with the Team Product Owner. You will be involved on all phases of the projects to guarantee an optimized and performing development that responds to the constraints of last generation FPGA development.  

Working for Mohamed, the team engineering manager, and in close collaboration with the software architects and Tech Leader, your main responsibilities will be: 

• Participate in the product evolutions to support future requirements 
• Participate to the technical specifications in collaboration with the hardware architect 
• Implement and test complex features based those on technical specifications 
• Maintain and improve documentation for hardware components 
• Ensure the technical debt is under control and provide means to reduce it 
• Provide technical mentoring to Junior developers & help them to improve in knowledge, development, testing & methodology. 
• Participate in the improvement of the delivery environment and workflow of the team 

Your Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in electronic engineering 
• At least 7 years of professional experience 
• Excellent understanding of the complete FPGA flow with deep knowledge in timing analysis 
• Solid knowledge in network applications in a low latency context 
• Strong organizational and leadership abilities 
• Technical environment : VHDL, Linux, Python, Networks, Jenkins, Git 
• Professional English and French 

More About You:

• You are passionate about working on very technical and innovative hardware acceleration products with a primary focus on quality and performance. 
• You have a dynamic and rigorous work-ethic with the ability to work in a team-oriented, technical, collaborative environment 
• You like to be involved in technical subjects and contributing to solve problems, be it in a team or managing issues/troubleshooting 
• You are a critical thinker, life-long learner and enjoy discovering new technologies and solutions