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FPGA Engineer

Belvedere Trading· Technology – Execution Systems
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Hybrid (Chicago, IL)$175k - $225kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Belvedere Trading is a proprietary trading firm seeking an FPGA Developer to optimize options market-making systems. The role focuses on high-performance, low-latency FPGA-based solutions with opportunities to work on hybrid hardware/software systems and exchange protocol encoding/decoding.

Responsibilities

  • Use cutting-edge technology while working on high performance/low latency systems
  • Collaborate with team members to investigate and create automated trading algorithms
  • Work on high-performance computing systems to break speed and performance boundaries
  • Build next-generation algorithmic trading systems
  • Solve low-latency trading problems and optimization of performance-critical code
  • Develop new hardware platforms
  • Identifying opportunities for improvement and experimenting with performance optimizations
  • Apply industry knowledge and technical skills in new and innovative ways
  • Help to continuously improve team productivity, code quality, tool, and technology adoption
  • Create new features and help improve existing experiences
  • Share ideas, experience, and knowledge with other members of the team

Qualifications

  • Development experience with FPGAs (Verilog/VHDL, functional verification, and static timing closure)
  • Demonstrated experience with C++, Bash, TCL, and/or Python scripts
  • Experience with FPGA design, simulation, and verification tools (Synopsys, Riviera, ModelSim, Questasim, etc.)
  • A desire to push the boundaries on performance and lower latency
  • Passion for innovation and building systems from the ground up
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment
  • Careful attention to detail, and the vision and skill to push beyond expectations

Skills

Required:FPGA developmentC++BashVerilog/VHDL
Nice to have:TCLPythonexchange protocol encoding/decodingPCIe

Benefits

  • Ambiguous in description; mentions discretionary bonuses and access to a variety of benefits on the website
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Belvedere Trading

Market Makers.

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm located in Chicago, specializing in equity index and commodity derivatives.

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