NLGraduate FPGA Engineer (2027 Start)
OptiverAmsterdam
Why this is on the board
The work itself, making trading systems a few nanoseconds faster, helps no one directly; the leverage is in the salary, which at trading firms like Optiver quickly rises well above an ordinary starting salary through profit sharing. If you deliberately choose to give a large share of that income every year to well-researched charities (earning to give), you can contribute far more than with the job alone, but that only works if you actually keep the giving up.
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About the role
As an FPGA Engineer, you’ll work side-by-side with teammates to build real-world applications that power a global trading firm. You’ll create solutions with nanosecond response times, highly parallelized algorithms, and customized low-level networking that solve business challenges effectively and efficiently. Collaborating closely with our business, you’ll have in-depth insight into a problem before developing the solution.
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