Job Details

Founding Principal Hardware Engineer

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 Brse, etc.).

Exchange Integrated High Frequency Trading Logic

The PAX ? API provides traders with on-chip exchange integrated HFT decision logic. Using the ? API, traders can make markets or take arbitrage opportunities. The ? 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 ? 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 ? and non-? 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 ? 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