Virtu Financial
Hardware Platform Engineer
About this role
Virtu seeks a Hardware Platform Engineer to deploy, maintain, and optimize custom FPGA solutions that power ultra-low latency trading systems. You'll develop software applications to control and monitor production hardware while researching and evaluating hardware providers and capabilities.
What you'll do
- Test and troubleshoot custom hardware equipment and platforms
- Design and execute hardware platform deployment strategies
- Build software applications to control and monitor FPGA-based systems
- Research and evaluate hardware providers, features, and technical capabilities
- Optimize hardware platform performance for trading environments
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on infrastructure improvements
What they're looking for
- Python programming
- Network protocols and architecture
- Computer systems knowledge
- Hardware troubleshooting and testing
- FPGA platforms
- Problem-solving and communication
- Real-time systems (desired)
- Exchange market data systems (desired)
Benefits
- Meritocratic, flat hierarchy environment
- Dynamic fintech workplace
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge trading technology
- No finance background required
- Career growth in financial technology
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Virtu Financial
Virtu Financial builds high-performance trading platforms and infrastructure for financial markets, serving traders and clients with advanced systems for data management, execution, and analysis. The company is hiring Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, and Frontend Engineers to develop and optimize trading tools, platforms, and reference data systems across JavaScript, React, Java, C#, and backend technologies.
- Website
- virtu.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience with Python and how you've used it to control or monitor hardware systems.
- Walk us through a time you debugged a complex hardware or infrastructure issue—what was your approach?