Graduate Fpga Developer

Description:

Optiver

Leading global electronic market maker committed to improving the world’s financial markets

Create better access and prices for all – that’s our goal for financial markets the world over. As a leading global electronic market maker, we are dedicated to our mission of continuously improving the market. It’s a responsibility we don’t take lightly. It’s the driving force behind our business. Even in times of extreme volatility, we stay the course. Resolute in our belief that the market should always be liquid for economies to thrive.

As one of the oldest market-making institutions, we’re a trusted partner of exchanges. Our contribution to them ensures they remain stable, transparent and competitive. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds, and foreign currencies.

We strongly believe in the positive power of the world’s markets. That’s why we’re committed to leading the way in market making for environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) products.

Optiver is a global company with offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, Chicago, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, London and Singapore.

As a Graduate FPGA Developer at Optiver, you’ll work alongside experienced hardware engineers to ensure we have the fastest and most reliable trading systems in the industry. You’ll constantly be innovating with new technology in the hardware space, ensuring our latency is optimised to nanoseconds.

If you own superior problem-solving and are excited to work with the fastest devices in the industry, you are the ideal candidate for this role. Join us and be a part of a dynamic team where you can make a meaningful impact.

What you’ll do Your onboarding and training Kickstart your training in the Optiver Tech Academy, our global training program in Amsterdam. As part of the comprehensive training program, you’ll master the principles, systems and technologies used to build Optiver’s industry-leading trading systems, as well as discover how we work as a collective to build our world-class solutions. This opportunity will not only broaden your global network and equip you with cross regional knowledge, it will also empower you with the skills needed to excel in your career at Optiver.

Your responsibilities You’ll work in a close-knit team to design and develop highly accurate and efficient systems that respond to the financial markets in real time. You’ll delve into advanced engineering concepts and lead innovative projects that make a real difference. In just a few weeks, you’ll develop latency-critical applications that contribute towards our trading success.

In addition, you’ll:

• Accelerate network infrastructure and trading systems using the latest devices, tools and techniques.
• Develop rigorous test benches using a combination of VHDL and System Verilog.
• Explore new mechanisms for faster data communication/processing to accelerate network infrastructure and trading systems

Aside from technical skills, our dedicated education team will also work with you on your development, including:

• Workshops on a variety of tech-based topics, along with soft skills to support your holistic growth as a developer.
• A dedicated mentor who will guide you through our development process and how our trading systems work.
• Trader training to get you up to speed on our business. This helps you understand the fundamentals of trading, enabling you to make an impact from the early stages of your Optiver career.

Read Vicky’s story** **to discover the exciting projects that you could work on in the FPGA team.

What you’ll get You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A highly competitive remuneration package.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
• Regular social events, including an annual company trip.

Who you are

• Final year university student or recent graduate. If you are a pre-penultimate university student, discover our 2025 FutureFocus program and apply today.
• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or able to provide evidence of full working rights.
• Studying an Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similarly technical degree.
• Deeply passionate about technology, particularly FPGA development, and have a range of out-of-classroom projects or activities to prove it.
• Knowledgeable about HDL languages: VHDL and/or Verilog as well as some experience with Python and/or C++.
• Understand network protocols: Ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP.
• Familiar with FPGA logic elements, transceivers, memory and other on-chip resources
• Have some experience developing algorithms in software.
• Excited to create high-performance, low-latency designs that critically impact trading success.
• Keen to work alongside the best developers and traders in the industry, with the humility to continually upskill and improve yourself.

• Testing and QA

  Ensure high quality work by testing code meets the requirements

• Backend application development

  Develop, test, and maintain software applications

• Frontend Application Development

  Develop, test, and maintain the user-side elements of a website or app

• Collaboration

  Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

• Numerical problem solving

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

• Attention to detail

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables