--- title: 'Hardware Engineer at IMC' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/hardware-engineer-imc-sydney-h9x69rw5r2dp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Hardware Engineer at IMC - **Company:** IMC - **Location:** Sydney, Australia - **Posted:** 2026-10-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/imc/jobs/4871352101 ## Job description IMC is a leading global market maker, driven by technology and built on a foundation of continuous innovation. Our teams blend trading expertise, advanced research, and world-class engineering to provide liquidity across exchanges and asset classes. At IMC, speed and precision are essential. Our FPGA engineers play a critical role in designing and deploying hardware systems that sit on the absolute front line of trading—processing market data, making decisions, and executing trades in nanoseconds. These systems are custom-built to deliver ultra-low latency and deterministic performance, giving us a decisive edge in highly competitive markets. As part of the FPGA team, you’ll work closely with traders and technologists to build hardware that directly shapes trading outcomes. We're looking for an exceptional FPGA Engineer to help us push the limits of performance and redefine what's possible in a competitive technological landscape where the best trading idea alone doesn’t cut it anymore. Instead, only the best trading ideas that are enabled via robust, scalable and fast technology win. ## Your Core Responsibilities - Architect, design, and deploy FPGA-based solutions for parsing market data and executing trades with ultra-low latency. - Collaborate with traders and developers to translate strategy requirements into real-time hardware logic. - Analyse and optimize system performance at every level—from transceiver tuning to logic layout. - Develop and maintain a robust simulation and testing framework to ensure system reliability. - Monitor and improve FPGA performance in live trading environments through benchmarking and profiling. - Explore emerging technologies and bring new ideas to continually sharpen our hardware advantage. Your Skills and Experience: - 3+ years’ experience in financial markets, exchange protocols (FIX, OUCH, ITCH), or co-designing FPGA and software systems. - BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field. - Extensive experience with FPGA or ASIC technologies, including proficiency in either VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog. - Strong engineering skills in Python, C++ or C. - Solid understanding of digital design principles, including pipelining, flow control, and clock domain crossing. - Experience with FPGA development tools and toolchains (Vivado, Quartus, Synplify, etc.). - Proven ability to optimize for low latency and high throughput in production systems. - Familiarity with networking protocols (e.g., Ethernet, TCP, UDP). ## About Us IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage. ## About IMC ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: IMC is a global trading firm that uses cutting-edge technology, quantitative research, and advanced algorithms to provide liquidity across major asset classes and trading venues worldwide. - **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped) - **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands (global headquarters); major offices in Chicago, Sydney, Mumbai, and other cities. - **Founded**: 1989 - **Founders**: Two traders (names not publicly disclosed) who met on the floor of the Amsterdam Equity Options Exchange. ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Proprietary Trading, Market Making, Financial Technology - **Target customers**: Institutional clients, exchanges, ETF issuers, buy-side firms, and other market participants. **B2B** focus. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the world’s leading trading firm, supporting fair and transparent markets by providing significant liquidity and competitive pricing. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are) ## Products & Services - **ETF Market Making**: Acts as a Lead Market Maker (LMM) in more than 150 US exchange-traded funds (ETFs). - **Options Wholesaling**: A top-3 liquidity provider by volume traded in listed options globally, with connectivity to all OCC venues. - **Institutional Sales**: Provides off-screen trading for buy-side firms. - **Crypto Solutions**: Offers global coverage of crypto products including spot, perps, futures, and options, both on- and off-chain. - **Multi-Asset Class Trading**: Develops innovative technologies and algorithms to trade in all major asset classes on more than 120 venues globally. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company). - **Key Metric**: Over 2,070 employees across 10 global offices as of 2025/2026. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Privately held; no external investors disclosed. Key partners include major global exchanges and clearing houses (e.g., OCC). - **Growth Signals**: - Employee count grew from +1,900 to +2,070 in recent years. - Operates 9,000+ servers across 9 countries and processes petabytes of data daily. - Expanding into crypto and new asset classes. - Committed to being Net Zero by 2040. ## Competitive Advantages - **Technology & Infrastructure**: A world-class technology backbone with 9,000+ servers, petabytes of data processing, and early adoption of AI/ML. - **Longevity & Experience**: 36+ years of trading history and deep expertise across multiple asset classes. - **Global Scale**: 24/7 liquidity provision across 120+ trading venues in the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and India. - **Talent Density**: A flat, non-hierarchical culture that attracts top quant researchers, engineers, and traders from 70+ nationalities. - **Culture of Ownership**: Employees are given significant responsibility early on, with a focus on collaboration and cross-functional teamwork. ## Strategic Focus - **Quantitative Research & Tech**: Continually investing in quant research, AI, machine learning, and large-scale computing to generate alpha. - **Global Expansion**: Expanding across new markets and asset classes, including crypto. - **Sustainability**: Committed to being Net Zero by 2040 and making a positive impact through the IMC Foundations, focusing on education. - **Talent Development**: Investing heavily in graduate and intern training programs (Graduate Traineeship, Launchpad) to build the next generation of talent. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: High-performance, collaborative, and non-hierarchical. 87% of employees say "IMC is a great place to work" (+4% vs global top-10%). [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values) - **Work Environment**: Office-based (no remote policy indicated). Offers free catered breakfast and lunch, snacks, drinks, and Friday socials. Regular team events including an annual weekend trip. - **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive compensation with subsidized gym memberships, ergonomic desks, and health/well-being programs. - **Learning & Development**: Extensive internal and external training programs. Graduates undergo a multi-week Graduate Traineeship (Trading School, Development School, FPGA School). - **Diversity**: Employees represent 70+ nationalities, with a strong commitment to D&I. - **Giving Back**: A share of profits is donated to non-profits, with a focus on education. Employees get volunteer time, donation matching, and grants. ## Sources 1. [IMC Homepage](https://www.imc.com/us/) 2. [IMC Careers Page](https://www.imc.com/us/careers) 3. [IMC Who We Are](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are) 4. [IMC Culture & Values](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values) 5. 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