Hardware Designer

🕒 July 29

🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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Fidus Systems

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2001

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Healthcare • Manufacturing

Fidus Systems is a company that provides comprehensive electronic and hardware design services to electronics manufacturers. They specialize in FPGA design, ASIC design, verification, and validation, with capabilities in embedded software, hardware, PCB layout, signal and power integrity, and mechanical and thermal design. Fidus Systems is skilled in working with leading technologies like AMD and Intel, transforming concepts into high-reliability products for high-demand industries such as aerospace, telecommunications, medical devices, and consumer electronics. The company is known for helping clients accelerate complex designs through its expert capabilities and flexible engagement models.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision plans • matching 401(k) contributions • annual profit-sharing bonus • other supplementary benefits