Hardware Engineer III

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.

• 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 software developers to develop an optimal interface between FPGA hardware and user space software

• A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience, with at least 3–5 years of experience in ASIC and/or FPGA development; verification experience is required.

• Expertise in FPGA and ASIC development using Verilog, SystemVerilog, and/or VHDL, including FPGA design flows (synthesis, place and route, and static timing analysis), Xilinx FPGA products and development tools, and industry-standard simulators.

• Experience with hardware verification methodologies and tools, including cocotb, UVM, and formal verification; Ethernet protocols, PCIe, switching and routing, traffic parsing and shaping, network PHY interfacing, third-party IP/core integration, Linux environments, shell scripting, Python or similar scripting languages, and documenting design and interface specifications.

• The ability to design and develop FPGA-based signal processing cores from system and architectural requirements, with experience collaborating across global teams and time zones.

• A background in high-speed networking technologies, including 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 40 Gbps network interfaces, and an understanding of network hardware techniques such as store-and-forward; previous experience in a high-frequency trading environment is preferred.

• Experience with FPGA kernel driver development and C/C++ programming, along with a strong mathematical foundation, analytical and problem-solving abilities, and strong communication and collaboration skills.

Tower’s headquarters are in the historic Equitable Building, right in the heart of NYC’s Financial District and our impact is global, with over a