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Collaboration and Execution

• Work with silicon design, system validation, and applications teams to understand requirements, investigate failures, and deliver targeted fixes.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical tradeoff decisions.
• Track work, keep project tickets current, flag blockers early, and communicate clearly with teammates.
• Build familiarity with how analog and Ethernet connectivity products move from silicon to production.

What You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 2–5 years of experience writing embedded C/C++ firmware on real hardware.
• Comfort working at the hardware/software boundary, including reading datasheets, accessing registers, and interpreting hardware behavior from software.
• Familiarity with Linux development tools such as gcc or clang, make, Bash, gdb, and git.
• Some experience with Python scripting for test automation, data analysis, or engineering utilities.
• Strong problem-solving skills, a systematic debugging approach, and persistence with difficult technical issues.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative working style.

Highly Valued Skills

• Hands-on experience with Ethernet at the system or device level, including Layer 1 PHYs, SERDES, retimers, gearboxes, NICs, or related devices.
• Exposure to analog or mixed-signal systems, including ADC/DAC interfaces, signal conditioning, calibration, or feedback and adaptive-control concepts.
• Understanding of signal-integrity concepts such as equalization, jitter, eye diagrams, channel loss, or link margin.
• Background with RTOS, device drivers, bare-metal microcontrollers, or resource-constrained firmware.
• Familiarity with transimpedance amplifiers, transmit drivers, CTLE/DFE equalization, CDR/PLL circuits, optical modules, high-speed copper connectivity, or PCIe physical-layer implementations.
• Experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, BERTs, logic analyzers, or equipment from Keysight, Tektronix, LeCroy, Viavi, Exfo, or similar vendors.
• Experience with FPGA emulation, pre-silicon validation, hardware simulation, Jenkins, or automated test infrastructure.
• Prior semiconductor, networking, hardware, internship, or co-op experience.

Location and Compensation

This is an on-site position based in Ottawa, ON.

The anticipated salary range for this Canada Engineering L1 role is CAD $45-55/hour.

We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.