Founding Principal Hardware Engineer

What you’ll do

• As founding principal hardware engineer, you will lead the design and in-production implementation of an exchange and co-located trading facility on a single silicon device. You will lead development of PAX core technology and set future design directions.

• PAX ultra low-latency in-silicon matching engine:

• PAX is building the world's first exchange and co-located trading facility on a chip. We will go-to-market using AWS F2 FPGA instances and follow-on with an ASIC design that combines network aggregation with exchange functionality.

• PAX provides the fastest tick-to-trade and market data publication in the world, across all exchanges (e.g. faster than NYSE, Deutsche Börse, etc.).

• Exchange integrated high frequency trading logic:

• The PAX λ API provides traders with on-chip exchange integrated HFT decision logic. Using the λ API, traders can make markets or take arbitrage opportunities. The λ API enables traders to respond to market events the very instant the information is registered in the exchange matching engine.

• PAX business model:

PAX sells access to its ultra-low latency λ API and offers trading otherwise for free. Existing exchanges typically offer rebates for liquidity providers ("makers") and charge fees to liquidity takers (the "maker/taker" fee structure). At PAX when λ and non-λ orders pair together, the free-tier order is given a cash rebate regardless of whether their order was characterized as making or taking. PAX is the first exchange to offer zero-fee trading and rebates for both making and taking.

Deep dives on PAX market structure & technology:

On-exchange trading incentives with inherent price competition .

PAX rebates & fees .

PAX λ API .

Relevant background:

Candidates with experience in high frequency trading (HFT) or at an exchange are encouraged to apply.

Skills

• SystemVerilog

• FPGA or ASIC design experience

• Rust and/or C++

• HFT

• Protobuf

• Curiosity and ability to learn

• Passion for trading and markets