FPGA Engineer

About Exegy

Exegy is a global leader in intelligent market data, advanced trading systems, and future-proof technology. Exegy serves as a trusted partner to the complete ecosystem of the buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, and financial services technology firms around the globe. Headquartered in St. Louis with regional offices in North America, the UK/Europe and Asia Pacific, Exegy has the global footprint to deliver world-class support and managed services to its customer base of elite financial market participants.

Job Summary

At the heart of a mixed software and hardware team you’ll be a key member of the Trading agile team responsible for trading solutions around the following products:

• nxFeed: A full feature feed handler which streamlines market data application development by processing data feeds on FPGA and making them available to applications via a simple, normalized API

• nxAccess: A fully featured execution engine with an FPGA algorithm sandbox allowing users to preload orders in hardware, receive market data then trigger & update those orders then send to the trading venue – with the speed and performance of hardware assisted by the flexibility of software

You will work in a team consisting of software & hardware engineers, driven by one Engineering Manager in close relation with the Team Product Owner. You will be involved on all phases of the projects to guarantee an optimized and performing development that responds to the constraints of last generation FPGA development.

Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Based on specifications written by architects and product management, develop and maintain technology bricks using our advanced workflows (testing automation, code reuse…)

• Participate on the development cycle from RTL coding, behavioral simulation, up to automatic testing on FPGA platforms

• Develop & maintain functional & performance tests for hardware components

• Provide feedback to the team and detect issues, risks & lacks during development steps

• Maintain and improve documentation for hardware components alongside with any development

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

• Degree in Electronic Engineering

• At least 3 years of professional experience

• Full understanding of the complete FPGA flow with deep knowledge in timing analysis

• A capacity to judge the quality and performance of a given architecture

• Technical environment: VHDL, Linux, Python, Networks, Jenkins, Git

• Professional English and French

More about you:

• You are passionate about working on very technical and innovative hardware acceleration products with a primary focus on quality and performance.

• You have a dynamic and rigorous work-ethic with the ability to work in a team-oriented, technical, collaborative environment

• You like to be involved in technical subjects and contributing to solve problems, be it in a team or managing issues/troubleshooting

• You are a critical thinker, life-long learner and enjoy discovering new technologies and solutions

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll be an integral member of a team where you will help define the product direction

• You’ll have an opportunity to challenge yourself and avoid the status quo with a goal of quality, performance and operational excellence

• We offer perks that will help you find your work-life balance and professional comfort

Paris Office Perks

• Transportation subscription supported at 70%

• Sustainable mobility package

• Meal vouchers at 9,86 euros per day (60% supported by Exegy)

• Profit sharing agreement

• Contribution to the Retirement plan up to 1000 euros a year

• Egym Wellpass app access offered by Exegy

• Free Gym in the building

• Prevoyance collective (= Death and liability insurance) supported at 100% by Exegy

• Fruits basket

• Remote work up to 3 days a week

• Celebrations (HappyHour, off-site day...) once a quarter