Senior FPGA Designer

About Exegy

Exegy is a global leader in intelligent market data, advanced trading systems, and future-proof technology. Exegy serves as a trusted partner to the complete ecosystem of the buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, and financial services technology firms around the globe. Headquartered in St. Louis with regional offices in North America, the UK/Europe and Asia Pacific, Exegy has the global footprint to deliver world-class support and managed services to its customer base of elite financial market participants.

Job Summary

Exegy’s FPGA engineering team creates and maintains ultra-low-latency FPGA HDL building blocks and network IP cores used across Exegy products and within the nxFramework Firmware Development Kit (FDK). These components support hardware-accelerated applications for leading financial institutions operating in performance-sensitive trading environments.

The Senior FPGA Designer is a hands-on technical contributor responsible for designing, implementing, verifying, and optimizing complex FPGA solutions. You will work across the full development lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through RTL development, timing closure, board-level validation, test automation, and production support. You will also provide technical guidance to less-experienced engineers and partner with FPGA Architects, software engineers, product teams, and solution teams to deliver maintainable, high-performance designs.

Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance FPGA logic and reusable HDL building blocks for ultra-low-latency applications

- Translate product and technical requirements into detailed FPGA designs, interfaces, implementation plans, and verification strategies

- Develop and review RTL using VHDL and/or Verilog, with a strong focus on latency, throughput, resource utilization, scalability, and maintainability

- Own significant portions of the FPGA development lifecycle, including simulation, synthesis, place-and-route...