Senior FPGA Compiler (Router) Engineer

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Estimated salary range: 144.6K–209.3K CAD annually, plus performance-based incentive opportunities.

Company

hirify.global develops programmable FPGA solutions for AI, cloud computing, networking, and edge applications.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and optimize FPGA routing algorithms for performance, routability, and timing closure.
• Contribute to compiler flows covering placement, routing, and timing-driven optimization.
• Improve runtime, memory efficiency, scalability, and convergence for large designs.
• Investigate routing congestion, timing violations, and design bottlenecks.
• Integrate routing features into compiler infrastructure and ensure robustness across customer use cases.
• Collaborate with architecture, synthesis, static timing analysis, and hardware teams.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in FPGA/ASIC design tools, EDA, or related fields.
• Strong algorithms and data structures background, including graph algorithms and optimization techniques.
• Experience with FPGA or ASIC flows, including placement, routing, and timing closure.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and software development best practices.
• Knowledge of routing algorithms, timing-driven design, and physical design concepts.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with commercial FPGA toolchains such as Quartus or Vivado.
• Knowledge of FPGA architectures and interconnect fabrics.
• Experience with parallel or distributed computing for EDA workloads.
• Scripting experience with Python or Tcl.
• Background in timing analysis or placement algorithms.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on compiler technology for next-generation FPGA platforms.
• Solve complex algorithmic challenges at scale.
• Collaborate with architecture, silicon, and software teams.
• Performance-based incentive opportunities are available.
• Canadian work experience is not required.
• Applicants must be eligible for any required Canada export authorizations.