Junior​/Intermediate FPGA Engineer (Hybrid

Your opportunity

By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.
Kardium has a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique, and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market:
The Globe® Pulsed Field System. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.
We have obtained FDA approval and officially begun the commercial launch of the Globe® Pulsed Field System. This is a pivotal and exciting time in our journey, as we bring this life-changing technology to patients!
We are looking for a Junior/Intermediate FPGA Engineer to help support the next generation of high-quality medical devices. In this role, you will gain hands-on experience in the development and commercialization of complex and leading-edge FPGA-based systems. You will be responsible for supporting and improving the FPGA designs that power our medical devices.
Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

The Junior/Intermediate FPGA Engineer position focuses on FPGA development and verification activities. You will work as part of a highly collaborative team to support and enhance FPGA functionality. If you are passionate about FPGA design for medical devices, this is an excellent opportunity to contribute to an innovative product that improves patient outcomes.

• Assisting in FPGA design, including implementing and verifying modules under senior team members' guidance.
• Supporting debugging efforts for FPGA-related issues, working closely with firmware and hardware teams.
• Writing and maintaining test benches to validate FPGA functionality.
• Participating in code reviews, contributing to design improvements and optimization.
• Assisting in system integration by collaborating with software, hardware, and verification teams.
• Working with multi-FPGA systems, including interconnect design and verification.
• Documenting designs, test procedures, and debugging results to ensure knowledge retention and transfer.

Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about developing cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work in a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. We understand that only by working together can we solve what was thought unsolvable.
Must-Have:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience in FPGA development and verification.
• Experience with Vivado for FPGA design and Active-HDL for simulation and verification.
• Proficiency in VHDL (primary);
  Verilog/System Verilog an asset.
• Experience with static timing analysis and closure.
• Understanding of AXI (Lite/Full) memory-mapped register interfaces.
• Understanding of clock domain crossing (CDC) principles.
• Basic understanding of analog/mixed-signal design, high-speed digital design, and signal integrity concepts.
• Ability to read electrical schematics.
• Experience with debugging tools such as logic analyzers and oscilloscopes.
• Proficiency in TCL and Python scripting.
• Familiarity with Git-based version control and code review workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interface effectively across multiple disciplines and functions at various levels of the organization.

• Experience with medical device design and quality requirements
• Experience with Zynq FPGAs and SoCs.
• Experience with the Xilinx Ultra Scale+ family.
• Experience with linting tools such as Aldec ALINT.
• Experience with Aurora and high-speed serial links (GTH transceivers).
• Experience with multi-FPGA AXI interconnect…