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Senior FPGA Engineer

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AKUNA CAPITAL

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United States , Chicago

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Salary:

145000.00 USD / Year
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Akuna Capital is a leading proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. We are looking for Senior FPGA Engineers to accelerate various portions of our trading platform. Members of the Hardware Development team will work with cutting-edge FPGA technology and high-performance computing architectures – owning projects end-to-end and making Akuna's systems faster and smarter.

Job Responsibility:

  • Own projects - driving project progression from inception, requirements, architecture, design entry, timing closure and verification
  • Partner closely with the Low Latency, Trading and other teams to foster and develop ideas that improve trading systems' performance and competitiveness
  • Develop and maintain RTL in Verilog/SystemVerilog
  • Write and maintain verification environments
  • Design optimization for timing closure
  • Develop and maintain project documentation

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience in FPGA or ASIC digital logic design
  • Deep Verilog/SystemVerilog or VHDL skills
  • Solid grasp of static timing analysis, synthesis, and place-and-route tools
  • Familiarity with algorithms, data structures, and verification/unit testing workflows
  • Python and Bash scripting fluency
  • Enthusiasm for collaboration with other FPGA team members as well as members from software and trading teams
  • Open mindedness for novel development approaches and architectures
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering, or related field
  • The ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions, including the ability to quickly and accurately respond and/or solve math and coding problems are essential functions of the role

Nice to have:

  • Network traffic experience a strong plus
  • master's degree a plus
What we offer:
  • Employer-paid medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • retirement contributions
  • paid time off
  • discretionary performance bonus

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 15, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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