FPGA Board Applications Engineer

Altera Corporation; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Corporation in Penang, Malaysia seeks an experienced FPGA Board Applications Engineer to deliver exceptional customer experiences by understanding and satisfying customer needs, driving innovation, and accelerating success.

You will collaborate with architects, package designers, board engineers, and PMs to rollout development kits, develop guidelines, and represent the customer voice to continuously improve quality and usability of FPGA boards and kits.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering with 10+ years in semiconductors and 5+ years FPGA board design.
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration and solution orientation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to convey complex topics clearly.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop FPGA board design guidelines and collateral.
• Collaborate with architects, design engineers, and PMs on board rollout plans.
• Represent customer voice to improve board quality, usability, and debuggability.
• Provide best‑in‑class technical support for board design issues escalated to Factory.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical communication

FPGA technologies

Board design experience

Education

BS in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering

Tools

EDA tools (Concept HDL, OrCAD, Allegro, Ansys, HyperLynx)

Job description

Job Details: Job Description:

As the FPGA Board Applications Engineer at Altera, you will be responsible for delivering exceptional customer experience to our customers and partners by understanding, anticipating and satisfying their needs, so that we inspire innovation, accelerate customer success and grow revenue.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identifying and developing board design guidelines and collateral.
• Collaborates with architects, package design engineers, board design engineers, hardware verification engineers and technical project managers in reviewing board/development kit rollout plan.
• Representing customer voice in influencing internal teams to continuously improve quality, usability and debuggability of FPGA boards/development kits.
• Providing best-in-class technical support to resolve board design related issues escalated to Factory.

Qualifications:

• BS in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering with a minimum of 10 years of experience in semi-conductor industry (including a minimum of 5 years of FPGA board design experience).
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to drive technical/strategic discussions and determine necessary solutions.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
• Good technical skills in FPGA technologies including EMIF, I/O, PCIe, Ethernet and hard/soft processors is an advantage.
• EDA tool exposure (Concept HDL, OrCAD, Allegro, Ansys, HyperLynx).
• Analog & High-speed Digital design Embedded/Telecom/RF domain experience will be an added advantage.
• Exposure to Thermal & Mechanical design reviews will be an added advantage.
• Experience in engaging/enabling/supporting customers is a strong plus.

Job Type: Regular Shift: Shift 1 (Malaysia) Primary Location: Penang 15, Penang, Malaysia Additional Locations:

Posting Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

About Altera

Altera: Accelerating Innovators Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.