Hardware Platform Engineer

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 team builds custom FPGA solutions and infrastructure that power our competitive edge in ultra low latency trading. Our Hardware Platform Engineers are responsible for deploying, maintaining, and optimizing hardware platforms while developing software applications to control and monitor production systems. As a member of the team you will take a lead role in:

• Testing and troubleshooting hardware equipment


• Defining and implementing hardware platform deployment plans 


• Developing and maintaining applications to control/monitor custom hardware platforms


• Researching and evaluating hardware providers, features, and capabilities