XR Trading is a proprietary trading firm with employees in the Netherlands, UK and US. XR participates in a wide variety of marketplaces including global futures, equities, commodities, options, fixed income, and cryptocurrencies. Our culture emphasizes teamwork, and focuses on continuous integration and test-driven development.

Job Function & Responsibilities

• We are seeking a talented and self-motivated Electrical Engineer (FPGA) to join our growing hardware team
• Work independently or as part of a team
• Demonstrate strong critical thinking skills
• Collaborative in their approach to solving problems
• Architecting and coding FPGA designs in a hardware description language, producing design documents, performing timing analysis and floor planning, and validating and analyzing designs for errors and efficiency
• Researching, designing and developing custom hardware for its trading teams

Location

• Employee must be a US citizen
• Work location in the US is generally flexible and subject to approval

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical area such as electrical engineering or computer science

Required Experience & Skills

• Excellent knowledge of Verilog
• Proficiency with VHDL and System Verilog
• Proficiency with a full simulator such as ModelSim
• Ability to transition between hardware languages and abstraction layers on an as needed basis and demonstrate excellence throughout
• Excellent communication skills, a strong work ethic and the ability to work both independently or part of a team
• Familiarity with C, C++, Python or other scripting languages is a plus
• 5+ years’ experience in FPGA design, including experience in the full FPGA design life cycle, tool flow and network applications
• Familiarity with Secure IP and experience evaluating vendor IP cores
• Ethernet experience (10G or higher), network protocols
• Familiarity with the financial services industry is a plus

Please note: only individuals whose qualifications match our current needs will be contacted for further screening and/or interviews. XR Trading does not hire candidates who are currently on a student visa or who now or in the future will require XR to sponsor them for employment visa. Thank you for your interest in XR Trading!