Software Engineering

Global Advisory & Markets, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) FPGA Engineer, Associate, Sydney location_on Sydney, NSW, Australia

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET), is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

Divisional Overview

Global Banking and Markets division provides financing, advisory, risk distribution, and hedging services for institutional and corporate clients. Within Global Banking and Markets, our equities professionals focus on delivering ideas, execution, and liquidity to a wide array of clients trading the entire range of equity products, including physical shares, ETFs, synthetic shares, baskets, options, and other derivatives. Our engineers play important roles in several areas within the division. Some engineers build automated trading platforms and algorithms for the firm and its clients, taking an active part in the increasing shift from voice to electronic trading. Others sit on trading desks, creating cutting-edge derivative pricing models, and developing empirical models to provide insight into market behavior. Still others develop systems and processes that assist with making the entire trade life cycle more seamless.

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) offers a best-in-class comprehensive suite of trading strategies to help clients achieve their trading objectives and navigate a variety of market conditions leveraging historical analyses, quantitative models, and real-time market information. These strategies are built on a highly distributed, scalable, low latency trading platform, which processes billions of transactions daily in the low microsecond range, with minimal jitter. Our engineers are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining this trading platform as well as the strategies running on the platform, in a collaborative environment. The software our engineers write is of a very high standard: it is client and market facing with real time SLAs and can have high financial and regulatory impact. Some engineers focus on implementing the platform, its surrounding ecosystem and order management workflows, writing highly performant code and optimizing its interaction with the hardware and infrastructure it is executing on. Others work on building the trading models, signals and algorithmic logic which constitute the trading strategies.

Who Are We Looking For

We are looking for strong engineers in the FPGA (Ultra Low Latency Trading) system space. These engineers will design, build, and maintain a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive FPGA platform for trading equities. They will focus on implementing the platform, its surrounding ecosystem and order management workflows, writing highly performant code and optimizing its interaction with the hardware and infrastructure it is executing on. They will adopt a data driven approach to decision making and participate in the full product lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and monitoring execution quality. As part of this effort, they will be expected to collaborate with colleagues across the world including in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and Stockholm.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a similar engineering field.
- Extensive experience with SystemVerilog or a similar hardware description language.
- Ability to create testbenches to validate HDL code through simulation with ModelSim experience a plus.
- Strong grasp of computer networks with in-depth understanding of Ethernet and TCP/IP.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in C/C++ programming and working in a Linux environment.
- Linux systems programming experience with particular focus on networking stack.
- Experience in debugging a live FPGA system using signal tapping.
- Knowledge of performance tuning for low latency.
- Experience building APIs for complex systems’ interactions.
- Familiarity with Global Equities Markets trading.

Key Responsibilities

- Research and implement best-in-class market data and order handling infrastructure on FPGAs.
- Provide strategic direction to the firm's Direct Market Access offering with changing market regulations.
- Understand market microstructure and implement changes to adapt to the changing markets.
- Communicate with clients, sales, trading, and regulatory teams about feature builds.
- Use data to guide decision-making, developing or enhancing tools as necessary to collect it.

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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