Are you a talented FPGA Engineer based in Shanghai or elsewhere in China, looking to take your career global? Optiver is offering a unique opportunity to join our world-class engineering team in Sydney, Australia. We provide full visa sponsorship, a competitive relocation package, and ongoing support to help you and your family settle in. If you're passionate about low-latency systems and eager to work in one of the world's most dynamic trading environments, we’d love to hear from you.
Who We Are
Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.
Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.
What You’ll Do
As a FPGA developer, you'll work with internal stakeholders (including trading, risk, compliance and research teams), to develop Optiver's low latency execution and network optimisation platforms. Our execution platforms are responsible for placing orders from auto-trading systems with as low a latency as possible, implementing risk boundary checks, order management and exchange connectivity. You'll get to:
- Develop solutions for our business challenges by implementing key features in our execution applications, through to testing, deployment and monitoring.
- Experience the excitement of our fast-paced development cycle – owning a tight feedback loop, testing and shipping your code to production within days.
- Collaborate with other software developers and contribute to the design and implementation of our high performance software applications.
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Flex your understanding of FPGA fundamentals by shaving out levels of logic to achieve a zero latency design.
- Implement and build solutions to enable our low latency trading and help Optiver retain its number one status in the market.
- Liaise with stakeholders across the company to build the best solutions for Optiver.
- Manage deployments to reduce risk and provide production support where required.
- Help ensure quality is maintained throughout our systems, including via code reviews.
- Contribute to our never-ending goal of continuous improvement, such as by providing feedback on where our systems and controls can be improved.
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Provide advice and guidance to junior developers.
To be successful for this role, you'll need to be someone with:
- 5+ years’ experience in FPGA development.
- Proficient in one or more of the following: VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog.
- Experience leading projects as a technical leader.
- Basic skills in either C++, C, or Python.
- Experience working with Linux.
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Understanding of computer networks and protocols (TCP, IP, UDP).
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.
In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:
- A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.
- The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
- Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
- Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
- Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.
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Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.
Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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