Position: FPGA Engineer 运用最前沿的 FPGA 技术进行高性能交易系统开发 Do you know that what will happen when trading meets FPGA? Could you imagine that how every tiny improvement in speed is leveraged and amplified by capital? Would you like to witness how different a world RTL with C++ can create from that by software alone? If you are feeling that you are wasting your talents as a silicon-worker on projects so tedious, you should definitely not miss this.
Who we are Akuna Capital is a derivatives trading firm headquartered in downtown Chicago that specializes in market making and arbitrage. Akuna started with five employees in 2011 and we now have over 140. In 2014 we grew by 84%, opening our first international office and our third U.S. office. The future continues to be a very exciting frontier for Akuna. Our founders remain a strong part of the company and work alongside junior members, building Akuna together. We compete directly with the largest market making and arbitrage firms in the world. We develop our own software strategies, algorithms, and models. We also have floor traders so we are not entirely an electronic firm. We have no clients and trade only using the firm ’ s own money from its partners. We use cutting-edge technology to build our low latency platform. Unlike other firms, we do not have legacy code and are therefore able to implement new strategies to be more agile in the creation of our trading systems. All of this leads to efficient design and allows our traders to be more effective. Other trading firms keep their quant, development, and trading teams very separate.
公司总部位于美国芝加哥，在上海，波士顿，香槟设有分部，我们是美国最大的期权产品做市商之一。交易主要集中在 芝加哥商品交易所，芝加哥期权交易所， ISE, 纽约证券交易所，和纳斯达克市场, 涉及的产品包含股票指数期权，利率期权及期货 (国债) ，外汇期权以及商品(谷物，牲畜，石油，和黄金)期货期权。我们有经验丰富的优秀交易员和创新开拓的 IT 精英。 Akuna 上海目前正在组建团队，打造最前沿的期权期货交易系统。在这里，你可以更加接近市场，接触到交易策略。这里是技术和市场结合最前沿的地方。（我们是属于做市商，主要做期权产品，期货）
We are looking for Mid-level FPGA Engineers to accelerate various portions of our trading platform. Members of the Hardware Development team will work with the latest, high performance FPGA technology and computing architectures to increase the performance of Akuna's trading systems. Hardware Developers will have the opportunity to optimize the system at a low level (gates and wires) as well as a high level (algorithms and architecture). They will also interact with Software Developers and Traders to engineer systems that will best enhance our ability to trade and provide liquidity to the marketplace. We expect Hardware Developers to have direct input in the design process, to efficiently and effectively implement those designs, and to use unit/component and system level tests to verify and validate the system. No prior financial industry experience is required.
Key experience we would like you have: • Strong Verilog or VHDL skills • Understanding of algorithms & data structures • Verification and unit testing • Experience using Simulation tools • Timing analysis and optimization • Good English communication skill
We will offer: • A huge opportunity to work within a trading environment on complex challenges • Work with cutting edge technologies with a hands on approach • Have direct interaction and impact on the business • Systematic Training (Finance and IT) • Competitive salary and benefit ( 20 vacation leave)
If you are interested in it, feel free contact by Shanghaicareers@akunacapital.com