FPGA Verification Lead Software Engineer - Electronic Trading Technology

Company: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

Description We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Electronic Trading Technology team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. The Jisu team in Electronic Trading Technology is seeking an exceptional and experienced FPGA Verification Engineer to join our ultra-low latency direct market access team. We are a global team with members located in New York, London, Athens, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Mumbai. Our team has developed in-house ultra-low latency connectivity and risk management applications for both external and internal clients. As we continue to grow, we are expanding beyond equities to support markets for other asset classes. Job responsibilities Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others Develops complex FPGA verification solutions for equities trading, with a focus on modeling expected hardware behavior. Collaborate with users and external vendors to gather requirements. Partner with internal teams, including business, development, quality assurance, and operations, to deliver reliable and low-latency solutions. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and 5 years applied experience Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Python co-simulation, C++ Strong knowledge of FPGA architecture design in VHDL/Verilog. Experience in developing verification strategies and writing complex test benches. Strong understanding of software and hardware interaction. Proficient scripting skills to automate development and testing tasks. Experience with complex system-level simulation using Modelsim/Questasim. Working knowledge of networking protocols, including Ethernet/10G and TCP/IP. Experience in a Unix/Linux-based development environment. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Experience with cocotb-based verification Experience with Xilinx/Altera architecture and design. Proficiency in high-speed/low-latency FPGA design. Understanding of Intel processor architecture and bus interconnect technologies like PCI-E and QPI. Experience with drivers and memory management.

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