Junior FPGA Engineer

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 fresh and talented graduate. 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 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.

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:

• 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 e.g. TCP is a plus
• Experience in market data and/or order entry for financial markets is a plus

Benefits:

• An opportunity to learn from the best in the field
• Base salary of EUR 80k, with possibility of rapid growth
• 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)