Job Description

Career Opportunity for a FPGA/Verilog Developer in Japan!

■ FPGA/Verilog Developer

■ Company Overview

A leading Japan-headquartered global financial services organization with a strong presence across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The company is known for its long-standing market reputation and is currently investing heavily in technology modernization, cloud platforms, and backend engineering to support mission-critical global systems.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Design, implement and maintain specialized FPGA-based systems using Verilog to meet ultra-low-latency, high-throughput trading requirements.

● Work with the engineering team to produce architectural solutions that integrate FPGA design with Linux C/Java host applications.

● Develop, review and optimize FPGA designs for predictable, deterministic network packet processing and market protocol implementations (e.g., Arrowhead, OUCH, FIX etc.).

● Create and maintain testbenches, simulation suites and in lab/in field validation procedures to ensure correctness, performance and robustness under realistic market traffic.

● Support deployment, configuration and ongoing operation of FPGA systems in co located environments; provide L2/L3 support for production issues.

● Produce clear design documentation, help evolve development standards and release processes and participate in code/design reviews.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Proven experience developing mid-range FPGA designs for production systems.

● Strong understanding of hardware design concepts: timing closure, pipelining, resource utilization, clock-domain crossing, signal integrity and deterministic-latency design.

● Hands-on experience with simulation and verification tools (testbenches, waveform analysis).

● Experience with FPGA toolchains (synthesis, place & route, timing analysis) from major vendors (Xilinx/AMD, Intel/Altera).

● Practical knowledge of network packet processing (Ethernet frames, IP/TCP headers and checksum handling, MAC/IP/port-based classification).

● Comfortable working with Linux-based toolchains and testing/automation facilities (PCAP analysis, Lua/Python scripting for regression tests, basic C for Linux programming, Git).

● Understanding of integrating FPGA logic with host software stacks (PCIe, kernel drivers, DMA).

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience with financial market protocols (Arrowhead, OUCH, FIX, or exchange-specific binary protocols).

● Prior work on DMA/FO/STP trading systems, co located exchange connectivity, or high-frequency trading infrastructure.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Collaborate with international teams across Japan, Asia, Europe, and the U.S.

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.