Hardware Designer

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.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys tackling challenging, high-speed designs (DDR, PCIe, SerDes), working across the full hardware lifecycle, and collaborating in multidisciplinary environments. You take pride in delivering robust, production-ready designs and mentoring others while maintaining a high standard of engineering quality and documentation.

- 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, SerDes to 32Gbps, 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.

- 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 32Gbps diff pairs, power/thermal design - Experience with high-speed devices and protocols including DDR4, PCIe Gen4, MIPI, Gigabit Ethernet, USB-C, HDMI, SerDes and JESD204B. - 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 - Embraces AI as part of a modern engineering toolkit

Location and travel : Fully remote role and requires around 15% travel, including domestic and international.

Our competitive compensation package also includes a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k) contributions, annual profit-sharing bonus, along with other supplementary benefits.