Director of eSoftware Engineering - FPGA​/Equities Low Latency Trading

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we've got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of eSoftware Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Electronic Trading team, you will set technical direction and personally contribute to the design and delivery of ultra-low latency market infrastructure used in equities electronic trading. You will build ultra-low latency pipelines spanning market data ingest, processing, and distribution as well as trading and execution workflows, with rigorous verification and production-grade operational controls.

This role requires deep networking expertise (including TCP/IP), experience with Layer 1 switching and low-latency connectivity (including microwave), and the ability to take large programs from requirements through delivery, coordinating with internal compute and networking service organizations and managing outside vendors. This is a technical leadership role; will guide the team through architecture, design reviews, and execution. A core priority of this role is to advance the team's adoption of AI-assisted and spec-driven FPGA development and verification workflows, including executable specifications, automated review, and traceability from spec to silicon, with examples such as AI-assisted RTL and testbench generation to improve quality, throughput, and time-to-market.

• Architect, implement, and optimize ultra-low latency FPGA-based pipelines for market data ingest, processing, and distribution as well as trading workflows, with a focus on determinism, measurement discipline, and production readiness.
• Design and deliver high-performance network subsystems on FPGA, including deep TCP/IP expertise and complementary protocol support (UDP, IP, multicast, ARP), time synchronization (PTP), and loss/latency instrumentation suitable for production operations.
• Engineer and integrate Layer 1 switching and ultra-low latency signal distribution capabilities, including deterministic path design and the physical and topology constraints typical of low-latency market access environments.
• Partner with network engineering teams and external vendors to design, validate, and operate low-latency connectivity solutions, including microwave / wireless links, with clear operational runbooks and measurable service-level objectives.
• Own verification strategy and execution, building robust test benches in Python/Cocotb to achieve high functional coverage, strong regression quality, and fast debug cycles.
• Drive timing closure and performance predictability, including floor planning, static timing analysis, CDC/RDC correctness, power optimization, and post-route validation under realistic traffic and corner conditions.
• Serve as technical lead for a team hardware and software engineers across the program lifecycle, taking large programs from requirements through production rollout while coordinating with internal compute and networking service organizations and managing outside vendors.
• Lead the team's adoption and scaling of AI-assisted and spec-driven workflows for FPGA development and verification, including executable specifications, spec-to-implementation traceability, AI-assisted RTL generation and refactoring, automated code review, testbench and stimulus generation, bug triage, and performance tuning, with appropriate controls for correctness, IP protection, confidentiality, and auditability.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• Strong expertise and hands-on FPGA development experience in low-latency electronic trading and HFT systems.
• Demonstrated expertise building ultra-low latency FPGA pipelines
  , including end-to-end performance measurement, deterministic design techniques, and latency/throughput trade-offs.
• Advanced verification capability using Python and Cocotb
  , including functional coverage, constrained/random strategies as appropriate, regression automation, and debug discipline; familiarity with System Verilog and UVM as complementary verification approaches.
• Strong market data domain knowledge across ingest, processing, and distribution in production trading environments.
• Deep understanding of networking with proven implementation and troubleshooting experience in TCP
  , and strong competence across UDP, IP, multicast, ARP, and PTP
  , including packet parsing, buffering, congestion/flow considerations, and time stamping.
• Experience with Layer 1 switching and ultra-low latency signal distribution concepts, including deterministic path design and the physical and topology constraints typical of low-latency market access environments.
• Hands-on experience with microwave / wireless low-latency connectivity for market access,…