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title: 'Hardware Engineer (FPGA) at Virtu Financial'
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# Hardware Engineer (FPGA) at Virtu Financial

- **Company:** Virtu Financial
- **Location:** Dublin, Ireland
- **Posted:** 2019-06-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/virtu/jobs/4339877002

## Job description

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide.​

## THE ROLE

Virtu's Hardware Design team builds the FPGA and ASIC applications at the core of the firm's proprietary low-latency trading platform.

We are looking for an FPGA/ASIC Engineer to join us. The ideal candidate will be a creative and ambitious hardware engineer who is excited to work on our low-latency trading infrastructure. You'll work on challenging problems alongside a small, international team.

In this role you will:

- Design and develop RTL for new low-latency trading applications
- Own designs end to end, from specification through verification to production deployment
- Improve the team's build, simulation, and verification infrastructure
- Coordinate and execute hardware deployments in live production environments

Virtu offers a dynamic, meritocratic environment with a flat hierarchy. No finance background is necessary or expected. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to start a career in the financial technology space.

## THE CANDIDATE

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 2+ years of professional FPGA or ASIC experience (an advanced degree may substitute)
- Strong RTL design and verification skills (SystemVerilog/VHDL, cocotb)
- Familiarity with FPGA/IC design flows and vendor toolchains (Xilinx/AMD, Synopsys, Cadence)
- Working knowledge of high-speed interfaces (Ethernet/MAC/PHY, PCIe, AXI)

## DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

- Programming in Python, C++, or similar
- Back-end physical design experience
- Understanding of network protocols and packet processing (TCP/UDP, IP multicast, and hardware protocol offloading)

## BENEFITS

- Generous Time Off: 26 days annual leave, plus additional leave for community service, marriage/civil partnerships, and moving house
- Family Support: Paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity leave
- Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing: Private health, dental, and optical cover, GP access, and a dedicated wellness programme
- Financial Protection: Life assurance, income protection, and a competitive pension scheme
- Active Lifestyle Perks: Gym subsidy/fitness reimbursement and Cycle to Work scheme
- Commuting Made Easy: Commuter benefit plan
- Travel Cover: Personal travel insurance
- Daily Perks: Complimentary catered lunches every day, laundry service, onsite gym, barber and hairdresser service

## THE PROCESS

After passing an initial application screening, candidates will complete an online assessment via HackerRank as the first stage of the process. After passing the online test, we will contact you to arrange a phone screen.

Virtu Financial is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, welcoming you for who you are and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

## About Virtu Financial

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Virtu Financial is a leading global market maker and financial technology firm that provides liquidity, execution, analytics, and workflow solutions to the world’s financial markets.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: VIRT)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States
- **Founded**: 2008
- **Founders**: Vincent Viola

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Financial Services / Financial Technology (Market Making, Trading, Analytics)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – Institutional asset managers, broker-dealers, hedge funds, banks, and other financial intermediaries.
- **Mission/Purpose**: To use technology to create more efficient, transparent markets and provide clients with innovative, transparent trading solutions.

## Products & Services
- **Market Making**: Provides competitive bids and offers in over 25,000 securities across 235+ venues in 37 countries, acting as a liquidity provider to create more efficient markets.
- **Triton EMS**: A global, broker-neutral, multi-asset execution management system that combines Virtu’s liquidity, analytics, and workflow tools into a single interface.
- **Open Technology Platform**: A data-as-a-service solution offering APIs and tools for clients to access Virtu’s market data and analytics.
- **Trading Analytics & TCA**: End-to-end pre-trade, intra-trade, and post-trade analytics, including transaction cost analysis (TCA), outlier monitoring, and peer group data.
- **POSIT Alert**: A global block liquidity indications network for institutional block trading.
- **Execution Services**: Algorithmic trading, direct market access, and broker-neutral execution across equities, fixed income, FX, options, and commodities.
- **Virtu Technology Solutions**: A newly launched offering (2025) that packages Virtu’s technology for external clients.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: As a public company, market cap is publicly available on stock exchanges; specific figure not provided in search results.
- **Key Metric (Revenue)**: Adjusted Net Trading Income of $2,145 million in 2025 (per 2025 Annual Report).
- **Key Metric (Profitability)**: Adjusted EBITDA of $1,399 million; 65% adjusted EBITDA margin in 2025.
- **Clients**: Over 2,000 clients, with 1,400+ active; 70% of the largest global institutional asset managers rely on Virtu’s TCA.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Silver Lake Partners (minority investment); consortium for RFQ-hub expansion; partnerships with multiple exchanges and venues globally.
- **Growth Signals**: Appointed Aaron Simons as CEO in 2025; launched Virtu Technology Solutions; expanded into new asset classes and markets (e.g., prediction markets, fixed income); named No. 1 Buyside Analytics Provider by Bloomberg; continued headcount growth across global offices.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale and Liquidity**: One of the largest market makers globally, trading in over 25,000 securities across 235 venues in 37 countries.
- **Proprietary Technology**: Cutting-edge, low-latency trading infrastructure and analytics platform that is core to all operations.
- **High Margins and Efficiency**: 65% adjusted EBITDA margin demonstrates operational discipline and technological leverage.
- **Integrated Multi-Asset Platform**: Clients can access execution, analytics, data, and workflow tools in a single, broker-neutral environment.
- **Industry Recognition**: Consistently wins awards (e.g., TCA Provider of the Year, Best Market Access) and is a trusted partner to major institutions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Technology Investment**: Continuing to invest in world-class trading infrastructure and new technological advancements.
- **Expansion**: Growing into new asset classes (e.g., fixed income, options, prediction markets) and geographies (e.g., Asia-Pacific, Europe).
- **Client Solutions**: Deepening client relationships by expanding the suite of analytics, data, and execution services.
- **Operational Excellence**: Maintaining financial discipline and a culture of continuous improvement.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a blend of the creativity and speed of a tech startup with the stability and discipline of a financial services firm. Flat, supportive team culture where the brightest ideas win.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office-based depending on role; global offices in New York, Austin, Boston, Chicago, London, Dublin, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, and more.
- **Teams**: Quantitative researchers, software developers, quantitative traders, sales/product specialists, and support teams. Developers work on cutting-edge low-latency systems, machine learning, and high-performance applications.
- **Perks & Development**: 10-week internship program with global training; opportunities to make a real impact on the bottom line; Give Back program with 10,000+ volunteer hours since 2013.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: VirtuCARES initiative focused on community, awareness, respect, education, and service.

## Sources
1. [Virtu Financial – Official Website](https://www.virtu.com/)
2. [Virtu Financial – Careers Page](https://www.virtu.com/careers/)
3. [Virtu Financial – Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/virtu)
4. [Virtu Financial – 2025 Annual Report (SEC Filing)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1592386/000110465926051785/tm2612843d2_ars.pdf)
5. [Virtu Financial – Investor FAQs](https://ir.virtu.com/resources/investor-faqs)

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