What We Do
At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers donât just make things â we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.
Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET), is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here. Weâre open to talent in Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney \& Tokyo.
Divisional Overview
Global Banking and Markets division provides financing, advisory, risk distribution, and hedging services for institutional and corporate clients. Within Global Banking and Markets, our equities professionals focus on delivering ideas, execution, and liquidity to a wide array of clients trading the entire range of equity products, including physical shares, ETFs, synthetic shares, baskets, options, and other derivatives. Our engineers play important roles in several areas within the division. Some engineers build automated trading platforms and algorithms for the firm and its clients, taking an active part in the increasing shift from voice to electronic trading. Others sit on trading desks, creating cutting-edge derivative pricing models, and developing empirical models to provide insight into market behavior. Still others develop systems and processes that assist with making the entire trade life cycle more seamless.
GSET Engineering
Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) offers a best-in-class comprehensive suite of trading strategies to help clients achieve their trading objectives and navigate a variety of market conditions leveraging historical analyses, quantitative models, and real-time market information. These strategies are built on a highly distributed, scalable, low latency trading platform, which processes billions of transactions daily in the low microsecond range, with minimal jitter. Our engineers are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining this trading platform as well as the strategies running on the platform, in a collaborative environment. The software our engineers write is of a very high standard: it is client and market facing with real time SLAs and can have high financial and regulatory impact. Some engineers focus on implementing the platform, its surrounding ecosystem and order management workflows, writing highly performant code and optimizing its interaction with the hardware and infrastructure it is executing on. Others work on building the trading models, signals and algorithmic logic which constitute the trading strategies.
Who Are We Looking For
We are looking for strong engineers in the FPGA (Ultra Low Latency Trading) system space. These engineers will design, build, and maintain a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive FPGA platform for trading equities. They will focus on implementing the platform, its surrounding ecosystem and order management workflows, writing highly performant code and optimizing its interaction with the hardware and infrastructure it is executing on. They will adopt a data driven approach to decision making and participate in the full product lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and monitoring execution quality. As part of this effort, they will be expected to collaborate with colleagues across the world including in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and Stockholm.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelorâs or Masterâs degree in computer science or a similar engineering field.
Extensive experience with SystemVerilog or a similar hardware description language.
Ability to create testbenches to validate HDL code through simulation with ModelSim experience a plus.
Strong grasp of computer networks with in-depth understanding of Ethernet and TCP/IP.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in C/C++ programming and working in a Linux environment.
Linux systems programming experience with particular focus on networking stack.
Experience in debugging a live FPGA system using signal tapping.
Knowledge of performance tuning for low latency.
Experience building APIs for complex systemsâ interactions.
Familiarity with Global Equities Markets trading.
Key responsibilities:
Research and implement best-in-class market data and order handling infrastructure on FPGAs.
Provide strategic direction to the firm's Direct Market Access offering with changing market regulations.
Understand market microstructure and implement changes to adapt to the changing markets.
Communicate with clients, sales, trading, and regulatory teams about feature builds.
Use data to guide decision-making, developing or enhancing tools as necessary to collect it.
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
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We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare \& Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday \& Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness \& Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employeesâ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care \& Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Singapore, Hong Kong
DIVISION
Global Banking \& Markets