About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London, and Singapore. What you’ll do as a Senior FPGA Engineer at Akuna: We are looking for Senior FPGA Engineers to accelerate various portions of our trading platform . Members of the Hardware Development team will work with cutting-edge FPGA technology and high-performance computing architectures – owning projects end-to-end and making Akuna’s systems faster and smarter. In this role, you will: Own projects - driving project progress ion from inception , requirements, architecture, design entry, timing closure and verification Partner closely with the Low Latenc y , Trading and other teams to foster and develop ideas that improve trading systems' performance and competitiveness Develop and maintain RTL in Verilog / S ystemVerilog Write and maintain verification environments Design optimization for timing closure Develop and maintain project documentation Qualities that make great candidates: 10+ years of experience in FPGA or ASIC digital logic desig n – network traffic experience a strong plus Deep Verilog/ SystemVerilog or VHDL skills Solid grasp of static timing analysis, synthesis, and place-and-route tools Familiarity with algorithms, data structures, and verification/unit testing workflows Python a