FPGA Engineering Manager (34295)

Myticas Consulting; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Myticas Consulting is seeking an experienced FPGA Engineering Manager to lead the development of next-generation broadcast and high-performance video processing solutions in Ottawa, Canada. The successful candidate will oversee FPGA architecture, design verification, and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring on-time product delivery while maintaining engineering excellence and hands-on credibility.

You will mentor engineers across FPGA, embedded software, and hardware, drive CI/CD for hardware, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in FPGA and high-speed digital hardware design with leadership responsibilities.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills across diverse engineering teams.
• Experience guiding FPGA architecture, design verification, timing closure, and product delivery.

Responsibilities

• 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 with Hardware, Software, Product Management, Systems Engineering, Manufacturing, and QA teams.
• Lead board-level hardware design activities and work with hardware architects on high-speed digital systems.
• Oversee engineering test strategy, validation, verification, and test management for robust product quality and reliability.
• Drive continuous improvement through modern FPGA toolchains, automation, CI/CD, scripting.

Skills

Leadership

FPGA design

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor's in Computer Engineering

Master's degree (asset)

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

AMD/Xilinx FPGAs

Intel Quartus

ModelSim/QuestaSim

Python

Tcl

Job description

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.