Role: Intermediate HW Designer (contract)

Type: Hybrid in Ottawa

Hardware Designers work on complex, high-performance boards and systems, from schematic capture through PCB layout coordination, lab bring-up, validation, and regulatory certification.

A minimum of 3 to 5 years of direct electronics design experience, including high-speed digital design, is expected, with a bachelor's degree in EE/CE (or equivalent).

Required Qualifications:

• Experience with high-speed digital design and multi-layer PCB design
• In-depth understanding of the full hardware product development cycle: requirements, architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, signal integrity, verification, and manufacturing
• Background in FPGA designs, including power/thermal design
• Hands-on debugging using scopes, VNAs, signal generators, and electronic loads; comfortable with optical test sets and GHz+ oscilloscopes for eye-diagram, phase-noise, and signal-quality analysis
• Familiarity with ESD, EMI, and RF design considerations

Tools, languages and platforms:

• Cadence OrCAD (Capture CIS), Design Entry HDL, Mentor Graphics DxDesigner, Altium Designer for schematic capture
• Agilent ADS, ANSYS HFSS, MATLAB/Simulink, Cadence PSpice, LTspice for design and simulation