Senior FPGA Designer

Summary

Join Fidus, a leading Tier 1 design house experiencing rapid growth, as a Senior FPGA Designer. Contribute to challenging projects in virtual reality, high-res video, and high-performance computing for F100/F500 companies. Lead in your area of expertise, influencing product and service roadmaps. Work with cutting-edge technologies and a creative team in a collaborative and supportive environment. Enjoy a generous benefits package, healthy work-life balance, and opportunities for professional development. This full-time permanent position is available in Ottawa, Kitchener, or remotely.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing using RTL/Verilog/VHDL on FPGAs
• Experience with video systems and specification standards, video algorithms, and high-speed memory and bus interfaces, communications protocols, and DSP or processor instantiations
• Created designs using Xilinx or Altera FPGA families and have a solid understanding of tool flow
• Experience with Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, Xilinx Vivado, Altera Quartus, and/or ModelSim
• RTL design and verification including test benches, functional simulations, and timing closure
• Exhibit strong communication skills, are fluent in English, have great customer interaction presence, and quickly learn new technologies and processes
• Proven techniques and habits that lead to high quality design
• Degree as a B.A.Sc., B.Eng. or equivalent
• As a Xilinx premier design partner, you will be certified to Xilinx’s highest level of FPGA qualification – this will be your first “to-do” item upon joining us

Responsibilities

• Work with our clients and other Fidus Employees to develop complex FPGA and/or CPLD based systems, including architecture, custom development, integrated IP, simulations, and timing analysis and closure
• Design FPGA based systems using Xilinx and Intel based devices and tools
• Participate in design reviews (hardware-software interface, input-outputs etc.) to ensure Fidus quality standards and customer requirements are being adhered to
• Perform lab testing, debug of prototypes and supporting hardware/software engineer, as needed
• Perform customer prototype demonstrations and author test plans, design description and user documentation
• Provide technical insight to customers during the pre-sales and implementation phase of projects
• Provide technical support to the Business Manager and Sales team by providing detailed estimates on project scope, schedule, and deliverables and to present the technical aspects of Fidus proposals to the client

Benefits

• Full benefits package
• Healthy work/life balance
• LTD & STD
• Generous PTO