Fidus
Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services · Embedded & Electronics Design
20open roles
$110kmedian advertised pay
1backers · Stellus Capital Management
Scaling fasthiring pace, 77 of 100
Overview
Custom embedded systems design: FPGA, hardware, signal/power integrity and embedded software. First-Time-Right, from an AMD Premier Partner.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 20 open roles at Fidus. Fidus is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. The median pay stated in its open roles is $110k, across 7 postings that state pay.
- Open roles
- 20Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Ottawa, CanadaAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Median advertised pay
- $110kPay stated in 7 open postings
- Technologies in its job postings
- 53Named in its job postings
How Fidus hires
Truth index
B 78/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
67%
Reposted roles
33%
Fidus scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 67% have gone stale and 33% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
20
+12 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Stellus Capital Management
Momentum
39/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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Python
Bash
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
SRE
Platform Engineering
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$110k
Typical range
$85k – $160k
Open positions
7
1
Jobs
Architect
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architect | 1 | $110k | $110k |
Highest paying role
FPGA Designer
$160k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Fidus
By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
20
12 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
85 days
faster than 14% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
32% ▼
Solutions
26% ▲
Leadership
11% ▼
Legal
11% ▲
Sales
11% ▲
DevOps
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Solutions (+5 in 30 days)
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Fidus over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
53
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
67/100AI adopter
Languages
SystemVerilog33%
Verilog33%
VHDL27%
MATLAB13%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA13%
PyTorch13%
ROCm13%
TensorFlow13%
Databases
PostgreSQL7%
Cloud & platforms
Linux13%
Azure7%
Azure AKS7%
Bitbucket7%
AI & ML
LLM7%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
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Countries
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Ottawa
Canada
HQ
555 Legget Drive, Suite 800, Ottawa, ON K2K 2X3, Canada
555 Legget Drive, Suite 800, Ottawa, ON K2K 2X3, Canada
Fremont
United States
Regional office
927 Corporate Way, Fremont, CA 94539-6118, United States
927 Corporate Way, Fremont, CA 94539-6118, United States
Kitchener
Canada
Regional office
137 Glasgow Street, Suite 445, Kitchener, ON N2G 4X8, Canada
137 Glasgow Street, Suite 445, Kitchener, ON N2G 4X8, Canada
Valley
United States
Regional office
Silicon Valley | Design Center
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