Senior Hardware Developer (Job Req #2025-112)

Why Work at Ross Video? We have a great group of people working together to create and deliver cutting edge products that look amazing and are easy to use. We go all out so that our customers can have the best possible experience and achieve quality results. With a product focus, continual learning, results driven processes, and creative thinking, we constantly strive to improve our solutions and to deliver results. If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. All of the major Hollywood award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible. If that resonates, and you’re someone with integrity, commitment, and a strong drive to deliver great products, we’d love to hear from you.

The ideal candidate is part of our product development team creating world-leading next generation broadcast video processing technology including compressed video streaming.    He/she coordinates with the product manager on overall product vision and leads embedded hardware design from concept to prototype to new product introduction.

Our team is Agile and DevOps aligned, with a focus on continuous learning and automation.  We hold backlog refinements and post-mortems, regularly tackle technical debt and reserve time for innovation.

If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. Major award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible.

Who you report to: Director, Technical Product Management - Edge Technologies

What we offer:

Ross offers competitive salaries and comprehensive health plans, as well as several perks to help you perform at your best. 

Some of these perks include flexible hours, generous paid time off, fitness/wellness allowance, employee share ownership program, professional development support and a ton of fun social activities and events!

Best of all, you will be part of the Ross Video team, and we’ve got a pretty energizing environment here.

What the job is all about:

• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies like retrospectives, refinement, and sprint kick-offs
• Develop hardware design from requirements, including functional block diagrams, and detailed analysis of implementation options
• Architect, design, simulate and test leading edge HW solutions for Video market
• Assist in validating new electrical and electronic components
• Support the drafting team through detailed board layout reviews (frequently contributing directly to technical decisions relating to signal integrity, density, fabrication constraints, and thermal considerations)
• Work with the drafting team to ensure accurate board layout and design
• Work with the software and technical writing team to ensure a final quality product
• Contributes to the selection of lab hardware design tools
• Advise and make recommendations on matters relating to quality assurance, design for manufacture, and design to cost, to provide them with an improved basis for decision making and planning
• Participate in a daily scrum meeting and work with team members afterward to resolve a blocking integration issue
• Work with an FPGA designer to help test a high-speed transceiver link
• Thoroughly self-test all designs and support product verification throughout development by reviewing test plans to align focus, validating feedback, and debugging/fixing hardware problems as required
• Review manufacturing test coverage strategy and provide feedback to further improve coverage or to scale back based on acceptable risk
• Work with the project manager to identify key project milestones and integrations
• Work with suppliers, purchasing and the factory to ensure the overall design meets all requirements
• Document the design to a high standard for internal and customer review

What the job is all about:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or related discipline

• Senior level hardware design knowledge and experience in high-speed embedded systems with SoCs, FPGAs and ARM CPUs
• Expertise with Xilinx & Altera devices and associated design and debugging tools
• Experience with designing large FPGA based hardware with high-speed hardware interfaces such as 12G-SDI, 25G transceivers, DDR4 interfaces, source synchronous parallel busses and PLL’s
• Proficiency in general circuit principles, power supply design, CPU design, and signal conditioning
• Strong debugging skills & proficient with typical lab equipment (scopes, JBERTs, network analyzers, WFMs)
• Strong Windows computer skills; especially Excel & Visio - VBA scripting knowledge a plus
• Knowledge of broadcast studio applications & workflow preferred; especially router / distribution systems a plus
• Understanding of digital video and associated audio standards a plus

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
At Ross, we embrace diversity, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work. We are committed to building a team that includes a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Inclusivity drives innovation and creativity, and that’s something we’re passionate about at Ross!  We believe everyone should be able to enjoy a rewarding career at Ross, regardless of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability. If a disability means that you need any additional support during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.