Senior FPGA Engineer

Director and Head of Trading Technology at Quant Capital Consulting

FPGA ENGINEER – ULTRA-LOW LATENCY SYSTEMSLocation: London (Hybrid: 4 days onsite)Sector: Quant Trading / High-Performance ComputingQuant Capital is partnering with a global trading firm building a greenfield FPGA team focused on low-latency, high-throughput hardware systems. This small, senior group will deliver high-speed compute infrastructure integrated directly into trading, research, and networking pipelines.

What You’ll Be Doing

Designing and implementing latency-optimised FPGA systems in Verilog/SystemVerilog

Developing high-speed modules (PCIe, Ethernet, DDR/QDR) with deep pipelining

Using simulation and formal tools (Verilator, Cocotb, etc.) for validation

Working across teams (ASIC, software, infra) to co-design tightly coupled platforms

Contributing to tooling, flow, and potentially DSL extensions

What We’re Looking For

Strong RTL skills with experience building complex, optimised designs

Programming skills, C, C++ or similar

Solid grasp of timing closure, datapath design, and hardware-level performance tuning

Familiar with toolchains (Vivado, Quartus) and debugging workflows

Comfortable working close to hardware and owning the full development cycle

Interest in improving hardware workflows or applying high-level techniques

Bonus

Background in trading systems, signal processing, or networking

Experience with formal verification and/or hardware DSLs

Knowledge of FPGA-based networking acceleration

Why Join?

Build from scratch with a team driving real strategy and architectural decisions

Work across the full lifecycle, from concept to deployment

Deep technical ownership, minimal overhead, and real impact

Collaborate with top engineers in a no-bureaucracy culture

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Additional Details

Seniority level : Mid-Senior level

Employment type : Full-time

Job function : Information Technology

Industries : Capital Markets and Financial Services

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