Tower Research Capital
Financial Services
HardwareEngineerIII
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“Hardware Engineer III at Tower Research Capital. Skills: FPGA development, Low-latency programming, Hardware acceleration. Collaborate with software developers. Architect low-latency connections”
Industry & Context.
Challenging problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, 3 to 5 years of experience, ASIC and/or FPGA development, Verilog or System Verilog programming, ASIC development via VHDL or Verilog, Expert-level knowledge of FPGA products, Experience with Ethernet protocols, Experience with PCIe, Experience with switching and routing, Experience with network equipment, Experience with parsing, Experience with traffic shaping, Experience in FPGA design flow, Integration experience with third-party cores, Design and develop signal processing cores, Document design and interface specifications, Experience in Linux environment, Comfortable with shell scripting, Comfortable with one or more scripting languages
Nice to Have
Demonstrated background in 100Mbps network interfaces, Demonstrated background in 1Gbps network interfaces, Demonstrated background in 10Gbps network interfaces, Demonstrated background in 40Gbps network interfaces, Understanding of network hardware techniques, Previous work experience at high-frequency trading firm, Experience with collaborating in a global team environment, Writing kernel drivers for FPGA, C or C++ programming experience, Background in mathematics
What You'll Do.
Collaborate with software developers
Architect low-latency connections
Build Ethernet-based communication stacks
Integrate network stacks
Pass data to user space
Develop optimal interface between FPGA hardware and user
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Software developers across divisions; Global team environment
Full Job Description
Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities. Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization. Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance. At Tower, every employee plays a role in our success. Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do — combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best. At Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential. Responsibilities Collaborating with software developers across divisions to architect low-latency connections to financial exchanges around the world Building advanced Ethernet-based communication stacks direct from chip to SFP Integrating network stacks to connect to various financial exchanges Creating custom logic to manage a constant inflow of data, which will need to be parsed, processed, and passed to the user space in the most efficient manner possible Working closely with soft
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