FPGA Engineering Manager
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario
- Remote: Hybrid
- Type: Direct Hire
- Job #34295
FPGA Engineering Manager
Our client is seeking an experienced FPGA Engineering Manager to lead the development of next-generation broadcast and high-performance video processing solutions. This is a true engineering leadership role requiring a balance of deep FPGA expertise, people leadership, cross-functional engineering management, and product delivery.
Key Responsibilities & Requirements
- Lead, mentor, and grow multidisciplinary engineering teams including FPGA, embedded software, board-level hardware, verification, and test engineering.
- Provide technical and people leadership across the full product development lifecycle, from concept through production release.
- Define and drive FPGA architecture, development methodologies, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
- Oversee FPGA design, implementation, verification, timing closure, integration, and overall product quality.
- Manage engineering execution, schedules, technical risks, and resource planning to ensure successful project delivery.
- Collaborate closely with Hardware, Software, Product Management, Systems Engineering, Manufacturing, and QA teams.
- Lead board-level hardware design activities and work closely with hardware architects on high-speed digital system development.
- Oversee engineering test strategy, validation, verification, and test management to ensure robust product quality and reliability.
- Drive continuous improvement through modern FPGA toolchains, automation, CI/CD practices, scripting, and engineering process optimization.
- Maintain deep hands-on technical credibility while providing strategic engineering leadership and mentoring senior technical staff.
- Champion innovation in high-performance FPGA-based video processing, broadcast, networking, or real-time embedded systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline (Master’s considered an asset).
- 10+ years of progressive experience in FPGA and high-speed digital hardware design, including engineering leadership responsibilities.
- Strong experience with Xilinx Vivado, AMD/Xilinx FPGAs, Intel Quartus, ModelSim/QuestaSim, and scripting using Python and/or Tcl.
- Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with demonstrated experience leading diverse engineering organizations beyond FPGA alone.