FPGA Post Silicon Validation Engineer

Altera; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera in Penang is seeking an FPGA Post Silicon Validation Engineer to lead the validation of FPGA configuration flows and security features. In this role, you will perform device-level validation, ensuring industry-leading security and reliability for next-generation FPGA and SoC devices.

Qualified candidates should hold a degree in Electrical Engineering and possess over 8 years of hands-on silicon validation experience with strong knowledge of hardware security. Join Altera to help shape the future through pioneering innovations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on silicon validation experience with strong focus on FPGA configuration.
• Solid understanding of FPGA configuration architectures and security concepts.
• Experience validating HPS / embedded processor subsystems.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive validation strategies for FPGA configuration and security.
• Validate FPGA configuration flows including power-on reset behavior.
• Perform security feature validation including secure boot and authentication.

Skills

Silicon validation

FPGA configuration

Security features

Embedded processors

Debugging

Python

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Tools

Python

FPGA tools

Job description

## FPGA Post Silicon Validation EngineerApplylocations: Penang 15, Penang, Malaysiatime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R02423# **Job Details:**### ## **Job Description:**Join our high‐performance **Silicon Validation team** and play a critical role in enabling **robust FPGA configuration, security, and HPS subsystems** for next‐generation FPGA and SoC devices. You will lead **device‐level and IP‐level validation** of FPGA configuration flows, secure boot and root‐of‐trust features, and HPS components to ensure industry‐leading **security, reliability, and system integrity**.This role offers hands‐on exposure to **secure FPGA architectures, SoC bring‐up, embedded processors, and system‐level debug**, while collaborating closely with architecture, design, firmware, and platform teams to influence future secure FPGA products.**Key Responsibilities*** **Develop comprehensive validation strategies** for FPGA configuration, security, and HPS subsystems, aligned with device architecture, security requirements, and business objectives.* **Validate FPGA configuration flows** across multiple modes, including power‐on reset behavior, cold/warm configuration, partial reconfiguration, and recovery scenarios.* **Perform security feature validation**, including secure boot, authentication, encryption, key management, root‐of‐trust, and protection against misconfiguration or unauthorized access.* **Validate HPS functionality and integration**, including boot flows, reset sequencing, clocking, memory interfaces, and FPGA‐HPS interaction.* **Create and execute test cases and vectors** for configuration robustness, security corner cases, fault injection, and negative testing scenarios.* **Perform device and system bring‐up**, debugging configuration failures, security violations, boot hangs, and HPS‐to‐FPGA interface issues across silicon revisions.* **Work with evaluation boards, reference platforms, and customer‐like systems** to ensure interoperability and real‐world usage coverage.* **Drive innovation in validation methodologies, automation, and infrastructure**, improving test coverage, scalability, and efficiency for future FPGA and SoC generations.* **Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and board design teams** on configuration‐ and security‐ready evaluation platforms, influencing observability and debug capability.### ## **Qualifications:****What You Bring*** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in **Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field**.* **8+ years of hands‐on silicon validation experience**, with strong focus on FPGA configuration, security, SoC, or embedded processor subsystems.* Solid understanding of **FPGA configuration architectures**, including configuration memories, bitstream management, and recovery mechanisms.* Strong knowledge of **hardware security concepts**, such as secure boot, authentication, encryption, key storage, lifecycle states, and threat modeling.* Experience validating **HPS / embedded processor subsystems**, including boot loaders, reset/clock sequencing, memory bring‐up, and hardware‐software interaction.* Hands‐on experience with **system‐level validation and debug**, including power‐on bring‐up, failure analysis, and silicon issue triage.* Familiarity with **FPGA and SoC architectures** (strong advantage).* Experience or familiarity with **Python for automation**, scripting, and test infrastructure; Verilog familiarity is a 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 InnovatorsAltera 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.