System & Fpga Platform Engineer

nan; Toronto; On-site; CAD 145,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Symatics in Toronto is seeking an experienced FPGA/board bring-up engineer to drive architecture through a working prototype. You will lead multi-FPGA setups, define system-level requirements, and collaborate with software teams on drivers and demos.

The role requires 7+ years in FPGA prototyping or silicon bring-up, strong Vivado/Versal skills, and hands-on lab debugging experience. On-site work in Toronto with a focus on PMU accelerator systems.

Qualifications

• BS/MS EE/CE; 7+ years in FPGA prototyping, system/board design or silicon bring-up

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the multi-FPGA prototype (AMD Versal / Alveo class, HBM and PAM4 transceivers) — Toronto will host one of two lab rigs
• Port and partition RTL to FPGA; timing closure, transceiver bring-up, host PCIe link, debug infrastructure
• Define system-level requirements: host interface, board, power, thermal, clocking/synchronisation across many accelerators
• Write bring-up plans and lab validation procedures for first silicon
• Work with software on drivers, firmware and demo workloads

Skills

FPGA prototyping

System/board design

silicon bring-up

Vivado/Versal flow

PCIe endpoint design

lab debugging

Python/Tcl scripting

Education

BS/MS EE/CE

Tools

Vivado

Versal

PCIe tools

Job description

About Symatics

Symatics is a Singapore-headquartered fabless semiconductor startup building the MPU, a deterministic AI inference accelerator for large language models. Instead of scheduling work at runtime, the MPU executes a compiler-generated static schedule across a large on-die compute array and a low-latency multi-chip fabric, on a 5nm-class node with commodity GDDR memory. The target is predictable, low-latency inference for MoE and agentic workloads at rack scale.

The founding team comes from ATI/AMD, Lightelligence, eTopus and the wider GPU, SerDes and AI-silicon community. Toronto is our MPU design centre; Hsinchu is the centre for the fabric switch.

What you will do

Own the path from architecture to a working system: FPGA proof-of-concept today, board/host/rack-level definition for silicon next.

• Build and maintain the multi-FPGA prototype (AMD Versal / Alveo class, HBM and PAM4 transceivers) — Toronto will host one of two lab rigs
• Port and partition RTL to FPGA; timing closure, transceiver bring-up, host PCIe link, debug infrastructure
• Define system-level requirements: host interface, board, power, thermal, clocking/synchronisation across many accelerators
• Write bring-up plans and lab validation procedures for first silicon
• Work with software on drivers, firmware and demo workloads

What we are looking for

• BS/MS EE/CE; 7+ years in FPGA prototyping, system/board design or silicon bring-up
• Strong Vivado / Versal flow; multi-gigabit transceivers; PCIe endpoint design
• Lab skills: scopes, BERT, protocol analysers; methodical debug
• Scripting (Python/Tcl) and basic Linux driver-level literacy

Nice to have

• Rack-scale or multi-accelerator system design (GPU servers, switch systems)
• SI/PI awareness for 32G NRZ / 64G PAM4 links
• Post-silicon validation of GPU, NPU or networking ASICs

Pay: $145,000.00-$185,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person