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Job Description

This opportunity sits within a specialist FPGA engineering group supporting latency-sensitive trading systems. The role offers deep involvement across the full FPGA development lifecycle, working closely with software engineers and front-office trading stakeholders to deliver production-grade solutions.

The successful candidate will contribute to the design, build, testing, and deployment of FPGA-based applications used across multiple trading strategies, with scope to take long-term ownership of critical systems.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with software engineers and trading teams to design and deploy FPGA solutions across trading platforms

Architect and implement FPGA applications end-to-end, including RTL design, synthesis, place & route, and static timing analysis

Build and maintain shared testing and verification frameworks to ensure system robustness

Support software integration by developing APIs and optimising hardware–software interfaces

Identify and propose innovative solutions to hardware, FPGA, and system-level constraints

Progress toward technical ownership of major FPGA applications or market-specific platforms over time

Required Experience & Skills

5–10 years’ experience as an FPGA engineer within defence, aerospace, telecoms, or research-driven environments

Minimum 5 years of hands-on, full-time FPGA development experience using industry-standard tools and workflows

Strong VHDL development skills, with supporting Python experience

Comfortable working in Linux-based development environments

Strong engineering discipline with a focus on clean design and maintainable code

Proven experience working in collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams

Deep expertise in at least one of the following: networking, computer architecture, or verification

Working-level proficiency in C/C++

Strong interest in financial markets and electronic trading systems

Contact Ciara Clarke at Harrington Starr for a confidential discussion on this role.

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