Senior PCB Layout Designer

Headquartered in Ottawa, with additional design center locations in Waterloo and San Jose, Fidus is a global leader and dynamic high-tech design firm. Fidus specializes in leading-edge electronic product development. Our hardware, software, FPGA, and signal integrity teams innovate, design, and deliver next-generation products for clients in emerging technology markets.

Fidus leads in system, hardware, and embedded software design, providing a technical advantage to our global clients, from tech giants to start-ups. We work on leading-edge technologies within High-Speed Communication, High Resolution Video, and High-Performance Computing.

Established in 2001, Fidus successfully completed over 4,000 projects for over 400 customers by serving diverse clientele in industries such as Telecom/Datacom, Aerospace and Defence, Consumer, Semiconductors, Industrial/Automotive Controls, and Medical. As a Premier Adaptive Computing Partner for AMD North America, Fidus leverages in-house expert knowledge and industry-leading tools to architect, design, and deliver cutting-edge solutions and solve some of the customers' toughest design challenges.

We have an exciting opening for a Senior PCB Layout Designer for our Ottawa or Kitchener Design Centres. We are looking for someone who is passionate about designing and working with new technologies, is driven to win, and is excited to apply their creative skills.

If you want to be part of a creative team, you like to be challenged, you thrive on project diversity, you love to grow, change, and evolve, you enjoy a work environment that is built on openness, opportunity and career development, and you think it is important to have fun while reaching your goals and exceeding customer expectations, then Fidus is the place for you!

What's in it for You?

• Working with a Proudly Tier 1 High-Tech Design House at a Rapidly Expanding Industry: Fidus provides customers with full end-to-end development solutions or more selective targeted engagements. As a Premier Adaptive Computing Partner for AMD North America, Fidus has delivered more than 4,000 projects for 400+ clients, from Tier-1 multinationals to SMEs to start-ups.
• Join an Evolving Company: Make your voice heard and create the change you want to see. Be a contributor on challenging projects, lead with your expertise influencing change and growth in our product and services roadmaps.
• Join During Rapid Growth Mode: You're joining at an exciting time in Fidus history, recognized as a trusted design partner dedicated to meeting customer expectations.
• Work with Cutting Edge Technology: Fidus specializes in leading-edge electronic product development, including hardware, software, and FPGA/ASIC design/verification.
• Generous Benefits Package and Company Culture: Featuring a full benefits package, healthy work/life balance, and a company emphasis placed on feeling welcome and at home.

• At least 5 to 8 years' experience laying out dense, high-speed, digital and analog boards for various industries and products.
• Extensive experience applying advanced electrical constraint sets using the Allegro Constraint Manager, or equivalent.
• College technician diploma or equivalent.
• IPC certification will be considered an asset.
• Be detail-driven and have a good understanding of how to produce zero-defect layouts.
• Understand the fundamentals of high-speed circuit card design and routing.
• Exhibit strong communication skills.
• Interact well with customers and other employees.
• Ramp-up quickly on new technologies and processes.
• Contribute to a dynamic and friendly working environment.
• Layout of complex, multi-layer, high-speed PCBs using Cadence Allegro PCB Design, Mentor Expedition/PADS or Altium.
• PCB layout design on different core material substrate, component placement, impedance matching and routing analysis.
• Work closely with the mechanical and the signal integrity team during product development phases.
• Generate fabrication drawings, assembly drawings and drill files.
• Work closely with board houses to ensure compliance with DFA and DFM practices.
• Interface with board houses to resolve technical issues.
• Research and implement new techniques and technologies to grow the PCB design skill-set.

• Protel, Altium, Pcad; OrCAD Layout; Cadstar; Orcad CIS, Concept or DxDesigner; Autocad, Solidworks, Inventor.

• Layout of complex, multi-layer, high-speed PCBs using Cadence Allegro PCB Design, Mentor Expedition/PADS or Altium.
• PCB layout design on different core material substrate, component placement, impedance matching and routing analysis.
• Work closely with the mechanical and the signal integrity team during product development phases.
• Generate fabrication drawings, assembly drawings and drill files.
• Work closely with board houses to ensure compliance with DFA and DFM practices.
• Interface with board houses to resolve technical issues.
• Research and implement new techniques and technologies to grow the PCB design skill-set.