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Lead hunter-focused business development to win high-complexity North American engineering services. Prospect, build relationships with silicon vendors and FAEs, position Fidus as early-stage design partner, defend premium onshore rates, and drive revenue within a defined territory through pipeline generation, upsell, and cross-sell.

Drafts, reviews, negotiates, and manages contracts, amendments, procurement agreements, RFPs, RFQs, and statements of work across Canada and the United States. Ensures legal, regulatory, policy, and independent-contractor compliance; maintains contract repositories and renewal dates; supports acquisition integration, disputes, modifications, and execution. Collaborates with Legal, Procurement, HR, Sales, IT, M&A, and Finance while analyzing contract performance and improving contract management systems.

The Solutions Architect, FPGA will assess client requirements, architect FPGA-based solutions, estimate project work, identify risks and mitigations, and develop technical proposal content. The role involves system-level design, client presentations, solution partitioning, FPGA architecture, and occasional project execution. Candidates will collaborate across hardware, embedded software, verification, and other engineering teams while supporting product development and research initiatives.

Architects high-complexity electronic system solutions for clients, translating requirements into system architectures, work plans, estimates, technical proposals, and risk mitigation strategies. The role partitions systems across hardware, FPGA, embedded software, and mechanical or thermal domains; defines interfaces and performance budgets; supports client presentations and solution discussions; and contributes to project delivery, product development, and R&D investment decisions.

Develop client requirements, architect software solutions, estimate project work, identify risks and mitigation strategies, and prepare technical proposal content. The role involves presenting solution approaches, partitioning programs, collaborating across hardware and embedded engineering teams, supporting product and R&D opportunities, and undertaking project work. Candidates should have substantial embedded software design experience, system-level architecture expertise, FPGA and hardware knowledge, strong communication skills, and willingness to travel within North America.

Develop client AI/ML solution architectures, assess technical feasibility, define requirements, estimate work, identify risks, and prepare proposal content. Design deployable inference solutions across FPGA, adaptive SoC, GPU, and AI accelerator targets while evaluating latency, throughput, power, memory, data pipelines, and production requirements. Present solutions, support business development, contribute to product and R&D initiatives, and undertake project work. Travel within North America for up to six weeks annually.

Lead and deliver BSP-level embedded software for communication, networking, and video applications. Develop device drivers, kernel configs, and Yocto/PetaLinux build flows; integrate and debug FPGA SoCs with hardware using schematics and lab instruments; set architecture and provide technical leadership, mentor teams, and work with customers. Remote with ~20% travel.

Lead multiple complex electronic product development projects from scope through delivery. Coordinate distributed cross-functional teams across hardware, FPGA/DSP, embedded software, verification, signal integrity, PCB layout, and mechanical design. Manage scope, schedules, budgets, resources, customer communications, technical negotiations, and process improvements while partnering with Sales, customers, suppliers, and technical leads.

Owns block- and system-level verification for ASIC and FPGA designs, including test planning, UVM and formal environments, assertions, constrained-random testing, behavioral models, coverage closure, regression automation, and debugging. The role leads multiple verification projects, collaborates with designers and architects, reports progress, and advises external clients on verification strategy. Work is fully remote with possible domestic and international travel.

Own complete RF subsystems from architecture through characterized, manufacturable hardware, including frequency planning, transmit and receive chain design, RF modeling, microwave component selection, digital signal-path configuration, PCB layout collaboration, calibration features, and laboratory verification. The role supports communications, radar, SatCom, GNSS, software-defined radio, and other client applications, while providing technical leadership and customer interaction.