Arm: FPGA · Places: 1 per team · Team size: 5
About QTE
Queen's Tower Exchange is a financial-markets simulation for Imperial College London students. The FPGA Trading Project develops low-latency electronic trading systems across three teams: Exchange, Market Making and Market Taking.
The FPGA Trading Project consists of three teams — Exchange, Market Making and Market Taking — with five students in each team. Each team will have 1 Team Lead, 3 FPGA Engineers and 1 Software Engineer.
Applicants will be placed into teams based on their interests, technical strengths and where they are likely to contribute most effectively. Previous quantitative-finance or trading experience is not required. Applications are open to students from all disciplines, excluding first-year undergraduates.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction and day-to-day coordination of your team.
- Help define the architecture of the team's FPGA and software systems.
- Allocate technical tasks and ensure work is progressing against agreed milestones.
- Contribute directly to FPGA development and technical problem-solving.
- Coordinate integration between FPGA and software components.
- Communicate requirements, progress and technical blockers clearly within the team.
- Work with the other FPGA teams to keep interfaces and system behaviour consistent.
- Review designs, support team members and help resolve technical issues.
- Ensure the team remains collaborative, reliable and committed throughout the project.
What success looks like
A well-coordinated team that delivers a reliable, integrated and technically sound subsystem. The team should communicate effectively, meet agreed milestones, resolve problems quickly and produce work that integrates cleanly with the wider FPGA trading system.