FPGA Engineer

Location : London

G-Research is Europe’s leading quantitative finance research firm. We hire the brightest minds in the world to tackle some of the biggest questions in finance. We pair this expertise with machine learning, big data, and some of the most advanced technology available to predict movements in financial markets.

The role

The Low Latency Engineering Group is responsible for a low-latency system that is a critical part of a global investment platform. The group includes teams responsible for market-data, order-entry and order-execution functions.

The group has many years of experience in building low-latency software and is now building its first FPGA-based platform. We are applying modern engineering techniques (continuous delivery, fast feedback, and collaborative development practises using git) to FPGA development. We are looking for an experienced FPGA engineer, with strong hardware skills, to help us do this.

The LLE FPGA team is a small hybrid team of software and hardware engineers. The team is responsible for its own QA, tooling and continuous delivery pipelines. We value flexibility and willingness to collaborate on the problems we work on.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Developing RTL HDL in SystemVerilog and VHDL
• Writing automated test benches.
• Writing scripts in Python
• Developing some software in C/C++
• Building Continuous Delivery pipelines for all components

We give people time to learn and develop – including one day a fortnight to work on your own ideas and the opportunity to attend training and conferences.

Who are we looking for?

You will be an enthusiastic and capable Engineer who is able to solve real-world problems in HDL and software. You should be flexible and pro-active, with the ability to make complex systems work and to debug them when they don’t. You should enjoy working as part of a collaborative engineering team.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Practical experience of hardware/software co-design for FPGA-based systems
• HDL development skills in one of SystemVerilog, Verilog or VHDL
• System analysis and debugging skills
• Experience of working in a collaborative engineering team, preferably using a git-based development workflow, such as GitHub
• Some software development skills in C or C++
• Basic knowledge of Python
• The ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical people

Why should you apply?

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar
• 30 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

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