Senior Hardware Designer - Remote High-Speed FPGA/PCB

Fidus Systems; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Job summary

Fidus Systems is seeking a Hardware Designer to architect and deliver advanced electronic systems. You will collaborate across FPGA, software, SI/PI to define architectures, design high-speed circuits, and guide products from concept through bring-up and validation.

You will mentor others while maintaining quality and documentation standards. The role emphasizes DDR, PCIe Gen4, SerDes, and multi-layer PCB design, with a fully remote setup and international travel around ~15%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of direct electronics design experience.
• Ability to lead a design technically and as a mentor.
• Strong knowledge of high-speed circuit and multi-layer PCB design.
• Deep understanding of hardware product development lifecycle 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 DDR4, PCIe Gen4, MIPI, Gigabit Ethernet, USB-C, HDMI, SerDes and JESD204B.
• Experience with development tools such as Cadence CIS/Orcad/Cadence Allegro.

Responsibilities

• Develop system and board-level architectural design in collaboration with software and FPGA teams.
• Provide schematic design and component selection for high-speed circuits and memory buses.
• Conduct design simulations using LTSpice and validate with prototype bench tests.
• Work with SI team for detailed net analyses of critical nets.
• Participate in design reviews to ensure quality standards.
• Create parts libraries and schematic capture with embedded layout constraints (OrCAD/Allegro).
• Develop comprehensive test plans and procedures; perform lab bring-up and verification of prototypes.
• Collaborate to address hardware & software integration issues and mentor junior designers.

Skills

High-speed PCB design

FPGA/SoC design

SerDes

Signal Integrity analysis

Cadence CIS/Orcad/Allegro

Verilog/RTL/HLS

DDR4/PCIe Gen4

Power/thermal design

EMI/ESD/RF considerations

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

LTSpice

Oscilloscopes (GHz+)

VNAs

LTSpice

Job description

Fidus Systems is seeking a Hardware Designer to architect and deliver advanced electronic systems. You will collaborate across FPGA, software, SI/PI to define architectures, design high-speed circuits, and guide products from concept through bring-up and validation.

You will mentor others while maintaining quality and documentation standards. The role emphasizes DDR, PCIe Gen4, SerDes, and multi-layer PCB design, with a fully remote setup and international travel around ~15%.