Senior FPGA Engineer
DRWAbout the Role
DRW is seeking an experienced FPGA Engineer to join one of its trading teams. While DRW has been leveraging FPGA technology for a number of years, you will have the opportunity to build FPGA applications for existing teams. The role requires a strong understanding of software and hardware interaction, and the candidate will participate in the full development lifecycle, including system and block level testing, of low latency high throughput FPGA design.
- Architect and implement new FPGA applications (synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis, documentation) from the ground up
- Research and evaluate a variety of cutting-edge FPGA hardware and technologies
- Propose creative solutions to overcome FPGA/hardware limitations
- Liaise directly with software, trading and other design teams
- Conduct lab debugging and characterization of new hardware
- Comfortable doing production support and live debugging
- Researching new techniques, tools and architectures
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher, Computer/Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of experience within the field; (Master's degree or higher also counts for experience)
- Solid Hardware Engineering experience, especially with FPGA
- Highly autonomous with a can-do attitude able to lead an FPGA based project from system requirements to production
- Strong capacity to quickly evaluate FPGA based project feasibility based on hardware limitation
- Strong skills in RTL logic design (Verilog) and verification; 2+ years of experience writing Verilog
- Experience in FPGA design flow including synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis is required
- Experience with the design of system-on-chip (SOC) architectures, memory & processor subsystems, networking, and peripheral interconnect is required
- Knowledge of the TCP/IP stack
- Strong working knowledge of either XILINX or ALTERA FPGA design flow
- Experience with functional verification utilizing high-level methodologies (e.g. System Verilog) is a plus
- Excellent research and data gathering skills