Fidus Systems is an Ottawa-based electronics design services firm whose stack spans the full FPGA toolchain (Vivado, Quartus, ModelSim, SystemVerilog, VHDL) alongside board-level tools like Altium, OrCAD and HFSS. UVM adoption points to a deeper push into formal ASIC-style verification. Hiring pairs engineering with an unusually strong sales presence, and repeated pain points around pipeline, territory expansion and selling complex services suggest growth is gated by business development.
Notable leadership hires: Business Development Director
Fidus Systems, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, provides contract electronic system design and development. Its services cover FPGA design, ASIC RTL design and verification, hardware and PCB design, signal integrity, embedded software and mechanical and thermal work. The company operates from Ottawa, Waterloo and San Jose, serving both startups and large established technology companies. It works closely with AMD and Altera silicon. The privately held firm employs 201–500 people and recruits in Canada and the United States.
Fidus uses FPGA tools such as Vivado, Quartus and ModelSim, HDLs including Verilog, SystemVerilog and VHDL, board tools like Altium Designer, OrCAD and HFSS, plus MATLAB, Simulink, C++, Embedded Linux and RTOS. It is adopting UVM.
Job posts point to space and satellite systems, next-generation communications and networking, high-performance compute and storage platforms, video and VR/AR applications, and DSP algorithm development with fixed-point validation.
Yes. Alongside engineering, Fidus is recruiting sales staff and a Business Development Director in Canada and the United States, focused on territory expansion and pipeline creation, though overall hiring is slowing.
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