Jobs at Fidus Systems

Lead hunter-focused business development to win high-complexity North American engineering services. Prospect, build relationships with silicon vendors and FAEs, position Fidus as early-stage design partner, defend premium onshore rates, and drive revenue within a defined territory through pipeline generation, upsell, and cross-sell.

Architects, designs, validates, and documents mechanical and thermal systems for electronic assemblies. Leads mechanical design engagements, client communications, presales scoping, partner oversight, quality reviews, testing, and delivery coordination. Produces production-ready drawings, tolerance analyses, BOMs, and prototypes while guiding thermal and FEA work. Supports AI-enabled workflow improvements, project staffing, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration across hardware, PCB, software, and systems teams.

Drafts, reviews, negotiates, and manages contracts, amendments, procurement agreements, RFPs, RFQs, and statements of work across Canada and the United States. Ensures legal, regulatory, policy, and independent-contractor compliance; maintains contract repositories and renewal dates; supports acquisition integration, disputes, modifications, and execution. Collaborates with Legal, Procurement, HR, Sales, IT, M&A, and Finance while analyzing contract performance and improving contract management systems.

Draft, review, negotiate, and manage contracts, amendments, procurement agreements, RFPs, RFQs, and statements of work across Canada and the United States. Ensure legal, regulatory, and policy compliance; maintain contract repositories; track renewals and milestones; support acquisitions; assess risk; resolve disputes; and coordinate with Legal, Procurement, HR, Sales, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders.

The Solutions Architect, FPGA will assess client requirements, architect FPGA-based solutions, estimate project work, identify risks and mitigations, and develop technical proposal content. The role involves system-level design, client presentations, solution partitioning, FPGA architecture, and occasional project execution. Candidates will collaborate across hardware, embedded software, verification, and other engineering teams while supporting product development and research initiatives.

Architects high-complexity electronic system solutions for clients, translating requirements into system architectures, work plans, estimates, technical proposals, and risk mitigation strategies. The role partitions systems across hardware, FPGA, embedded software, and mechanical or thermal domains; defines interfaces and performance budgets; supports client presentations and solution discussions; and contributes to project delivery, product development, and R&D investment decisions.

Develop client requirements, architect software solutions, estimate project work, identify risks and mitigation strategies, and prepare technical proposal content. The role involves presenting solution approaches, partitioning programs, collaborating across hardware and embedded engineering teams, supporting product and R&D opportunities, and undertaking project work. Candidates should have substantial embedded software design experience, system-level architecture expertise, FPGA and hardware knowledge, strong communication skills, and willingness to travel within North America.

Architect AI/ML solutions for clients by evaluating requirements, designing deployment approaches, estimating work, identifying risks, and writing technical proposals. The role involves deploying models on FPGA, GPU, SoC, and AI accelerator platforms while balancing latency, throughput, power, and memory constraints. Responsibilities also include client presentations, solution feasibility assessment, data and MLOps planning, cross-functional collaboration, product development, and research investment identification.

Develop client AI/ML solution architectures, assess technical feasibility, define requirements, estimate work, identify risks, and prepare proposal content. Design deployable inference solutions across FPGA, adaptive SoC, GPU, and AI accelerator targets while evaluating latency, throughput, power, memory, data pipelines, and production requirements. Present solutions, support business development, contribute to product and R&D initiatives, and undertake project work. Travel within North America for up to six weeks annually.

Own Azure infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, security, monitoring, and production reliability for the LodeStar AI platform. Administer Fidus’s Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket environments, establish DevOps standards, support engineering workflows, manage PostgreSQL, and participate in incident response and on-call operations. The role also contributes to hybrid cloud infrastructure, identity management, regulated-environment compliance, and AI service operations.

Lead and deliver BSP-level embedded software for communication, networking, and video applications. Develop device drivers, kernel configs, and Yocto/PetaLinux build flows; integrate and debug FPGA SoCs with hardware using schematics and lab instruments; set architecture and provide technical leadership, mentor teams, and work with customers. Remote with ~20% travel.

Lead and contribute to embedded software development for communication, networking, and video applications. Develop BSP software, device drivers, kernel configurations, and build systems for embedded Linux, RTOS, and bare-metal platforms. Integrate software with FPGA SoCs and hardware, debug using laboratory tools, define system architecture, and provide technical leadership and mentorship. Collaborate with clients and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver maintainable, high-quality products.

Designs and delivers complex high-speed electronic systems from architecture and schematic capture through prototype bring-up, validation, certification, and production support. Responsibilities include high-speed circuit and PCB design, simulations, signal-integrity collaboration, testing, documentation, customer support, and technical mentoring. The role requires expertise with FPGA-related hardware, advanced protocols, lab instrumentation, and tools including OrCAD/Cadence.

Manage multiple complex electronic-system development projects from scope through delivery. Coordinate distributed, cross-functional technical teams, customers, Sales, suppliers, and internal management while owning scope, schedules, budgets, resources, project reporting, technical negotiations, and process improvements. Projects span FPGA/DSP, hardware, embedded software, verification, signal integrity, PCB layout, and mechanical design across industries including aerospace, communications, computing, medical, and automotive.

Lead multiple complex electronic product development projects from scope through delivery. Coordinate distributed cross-functional teams across hardware, FPGA/DSP, embedded software, verification, signal integrity, PCB layout, and mechanical design. Manage scope, schedules, budgets, resources, customer communications, technical negotiations, and process improvements while partnering with Sales, customers, suppliers, and technical leads.

Owns block- and system-level verification for ASIC and FPGA designs, including test planning, UVM and formal environments, assertions, constrained-random testing, behavioral models, coverage closure, regression automation, and debugging. The role leads multiple verification projects, collaborates with designers and architects, reports progress, and advises external clients on verification strategy. Work is fully remote with possible domestic and international travel.

Own complete RF subsystems from architecture through characterized, manufacturable hardware, including frequency planning, transmit and receive chain design, RF modeling, microwave component selection, digital signal-path configuration, PCB layout collaboration, calibration features, and laboratory verification. The role supports communications, radar, SatCom, GNSS, software-defined radio, and other client applications, while providing technical leadership and customer interaction.

Design and deliver complex FPGA and CPLD systems using RTL, integrated IP, simulations, timing closure, and lab debugging. Collaborate with clients and cross-functional engineering teams on architectures spanning video, communications, storage, signal processing, and other advanced applications. Support design reviews, prototype demonstrations, documentation, technical estimates, proposals, and customer implementation. The role requires strong FPGA tool-flow expertise, communication skills, and customer presence.

Design and deliver high-speed electronic systems from architecture through bring-up: schematic capture, component selection, simulations (LTSpice), SI/PI collaboration, PCB constraints (OrCAD/Cadence), prototype lab verification, test plan development, regulatory certification, documentation, and mentoring junior designers.

Design and deliver complex FPGA/CPLD systems: define architectures, implement RTL, integrate IP, run simulations, close timing, support lab bring-up/debug, perform customer demos, and produce documentation and estimates.