Autonomai Recruitment · 19 hours ago
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$500K/yr - $500K/yrAutonomai Recruitment is seeking a Lead FPGA Engineer to join their core engineering group. The role involves designing and optimizing ultra-low-latency hardware platforms for electronic trading, owning the full FPGA development lifecycle from architecture to deployment.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
James McNicholl
Responsibilities
Architect and implement next-generation FPGA solutions to accelerate trading, networking, and market data processing
Optimise system pipelines for sub-microsecond latency and determinism
Collaborate with software and infrastructure teams to streamline hardware/software integration
Develop, simulate, and validate FPGA designs (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog) targeting high-performance, low-latency environments
Engineer ultra-efficient PCIe, Ethernet, and DMA pipelines for real-time data flow
Automate build and deployment pipelines for FPGA design (Jenkins, GitLab CI, custom toolchains)
Profile and tune system-level performance across firmware, driver, and operating system layers
Partner closely with researchers and trading teams to translate strategy needs into hardware capabilities
Drive innovation in FPGA tooling, time synchronization, and deterministic networking architectures
Qualification
Required
RTL Design (VHDL/Verilog)
Low-Latency Networking
C/C++
Hardware/Software Co-Design
Linux
Experience in building ultra-low-latency systems from first principles
Deep appreciation for high-speed networking
Experience with FPGA acceleration
Understanding of deterministic system design
Experience in architecting and implementing FPGA solutions
Ability to optimise system pipelines for sub-microsecond latency and determinism
Collaboration with software and infrastructure teams
Development, simulation, and validation of FPGA designs targeting high-performance environments
Engineering PCIe, Ethernet, and DMA pipelines for real-time data flow
Automation of build and deployment pipelines for FPGA design
Profiling and tuning system-level performance across firmware, driver, and operating system layers
Partnering with researchers and trading teams to translate strategy needs into hardware capabilities
Driving innovation in FPGA tooling, time synchronization, and deterministic networking architectures
Company
Autonomai Recruitment
Autonomai Recruitment is a boutique search agency specializing in tailored recruitment solutions for FinTech, Crypto, and Ai.
Founded in 2024
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase