Overview
Hardware Designer Jobs in Ottawa, Canada at Fidus Systems
Fidus is a global high-tech design firm headquartered in Ottawa, with additional design centres in Kitchener-Waterloo and San Jose. We specialize in leading-edge electronic product development, with hardware, embedded software, FPGA/ASIC, and signal integrity teams working together to design and deliver next-generation products for clients in emerging technology markets.
Position Overview /Mandate
The Hardware Designer plays a key role in architecting and delivering complex, high-performance electronic systems for Fidus clients. You will work closely with customers and cross-functional teams (FPGA, software, SI/PI) to define system and board-level architectures, design high-speed circuits, and support full product development from concept through bring-up and validation.
Make an Impact with US
At Fidus, you’ll work on high-speed, high-complexity electronic systems, often using emerging technologies before they reach the broader market. You’ll collaborate across FPGA/DSP, hardware, embedded software, verification, SI/PI, PCB layout, and mechanical/thermal design as part of cross-functional teams delivering real products for our clients.
In practice, that means contributing to projects in areas such as space and satellite systems, next-generation communications and networking, high-performance compute and storage platforms, advanced video, imaging, VR/AR applications, and industrial, medical, and automotive systems. You won’t be limited to a single product or industry—your work will follow the technology, not just one roadmap.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop the system and board level architectural design, but working collaboratively with the software and FPGA programmers to analyze requirements
- Provide schematic design and component selection for high-speed circuits, Ser Des to 32
Gbps, control circuits, power supply sequencing, inter-board connectors, and memory busses
- Conduct design simulations using LTSpice and prove circuits using prototype bench tests
- Work with the Signal Integrity team to ensure a detailed analysis of critical nets
- Participate in design reviews (Signal Integrity, PCB Layout, FPGA coding, Software) to ensure Fidus quality standards are met
- Perform parts library creation and schematic capture, including embedded layout constraints, using OrCAD Capture CIS
- Develop comprehensive test plans and test procedures
- Lab bring-up and in-depth verification of hardware prototypes
- Actively collaborate with the team to address hardware & software integration issues
- Lead regulatory certification testing
- Generate technical and user documentation
- Provide pre-project technical support to the business and sales teams on project scope, schedule, effort estimates, and deliverables, and post-project technical support to customers
- Act as a mentor and sounding board to junior and intermediate electronic designers.
Who You Are
- Minimum 5 years of direct electronics design experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
- Ability to lead a design technically and as a mentor
- Strong fundamental knowledge of high-speed circuit and multi-layer PCB design
- In depth understanding of all aspects of the hardware product development cycle including requirements, architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, signal integrity, verification, and manufacturing
- Background in FPGA designs, including 32
Gbps diff pairs, power/thermal design
- Experience with high-speed devices and protocols including DDR4, PCIe Gen4, MIPI, Gigabit Ethernet, USB-C, HDMI, Ser Des and JESD
204B. - Experience with development tools such as Cadence CIS/Orcad/Cadence Allegro
- Experience using optical test sets, signal analyzers, and GHz+ oscilloscopes for analysis of eye diagrams, phase noise, and overall signal quality
- Hands-on debugging experience involving scopes, VNAs, signal generators, electronic loads
- Familiarity with ESD, EMI, and RF design considerations
- Ability to use Verilog, RTL, or HLS an asset
This role is being posted to fill an existing vacancy
Annual base salary ranges from $95,000 to $145,000. The final offer within this rangetakes into account the variations in knowledge, skills, experience, and market conditions, and with…
Title: Hardware Designer
Company: Fidus Systems
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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