FPGA Developer, Principal

• Location: Ottawa, Ontario
• Type: Direct Hire
• Job #34733

Senior FPGA Architect / Principal FPGA Engineer – Real-Time Processing Systems

• Architect-level FPGA expertise designing high-performance real-time processing systems and complex programmable logic architectures.
• Advanced RTL development using Verilog / SystemVerilog for high-throughput pipelines, accelerators, and timing-sensitive hardware logic.
• Experience building FPGA-based SoC architectures including AXI/Avalon fabrics, DMA engines, memory controllers, and multi-clock domain designs.
• Strong background in high-bandwidth data-path design, resource utilization optimization, timing feasibility, and device architecture trade-offs.
• Hands-on expertise with Xilinx UltraScale+/MPSoC and/or Intel FPGA families (Arria, Stratix, Agilex) and associated development toolchains.
• Deep experience integrating high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, and high-speed serial transceivers (SERDES).
• Familiarity with video/media transport or other latency-sensitive real-time processing environments involving high data throughput.
• Proven ability to drive timing closure, synthesis, floorplanning, constraint management, and place-and-route optimization.
• Strong verification leadership including simulation-driven validation, UVM environments, constrained-random testing, and coverage-driven methodologies.
• Practical lab experience performing FPGA bring-up, system integration, and hardware debug using scopes, logic analyzers, and embedded debug tools.
• Comfortable collaborating across hardware, software, and verification teams to deliver integrated high-performance systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship, guiding architecture decisions, design reviews, and engineering best practices.