FPGA Prototyping & Physical AI Intern

Lattice Semiconductor; George Town; On-site; MYR 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Lattice Semiconductor is seeking an FPGA Prototyping & Physical AI intern for its Robotics & Systems Engineering team in Penang. You will explore RTL design, SoC integration, and AI-on-FPGA across prototype platforms and reference designs that feed global customer engagements.

This 12-week placement targets final-year students in Electrical/Computer Engineering, with embedded C/C++ and RTL experience, and exposes you to hardware-software co-design, verification, and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated RTL design and verification; FPGA timing closure or resource analysis required.
• Embedded C/C++ with DMA/interrupts; SoC integration is a plus.
• Exposure to ML inference deployment or robotics control loops is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate and validate RTL for prototype FPGA systems with soft-IP (PCIe, USB, AXI/APB).
• Develop hardware-software co-design flows for Physical AI workloads between host GPU and FPGA.
• Debug across full FPGA development cycle with testbenches, simulations, and board bring-up.
• Automate validation and bring-up with regression suites, CI, telemetry and test reporting.
• Create engineering collateral: reference designs, guides, app notes and demos for tradeshows.
• Utilise AI to improve workflows and interactions.

Skills

SystemVerilog/Verilog

Embedded C/C++

FPGA timing analysis

ML inference

Documentation

Education

Final-year student in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Systems or Computer Engineering

Tools

Radiant

Propel

RISC-V

Job description

Lattice Overview

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Lattice Overview

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Job Description

Lattice Semiconductor is looking for an FPGA Prototyping & Physical AI intern for the Robotics & Systems Engineering team in Penang. This position provides the opportunity to develop technical depth across RTL design, SoC integration and AI-on-FPGA, working with the team on prototype platforms and reference designs that feed worldwide customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate and validate RTL for prototype FPGA systems, including soft-IP integration (PCIe root port, USB host, AXI/APB interconnect), timing closure and resource optimisation on Lattice Avant and Nexus devices using Radiant and Propel.
• Develop hardware-software co-design flows for Physical AI workloads: partition vision-language-action and robot-control pipelines between host GPU and FPGA, profile latency and power, evaluate quantisation and pruning trade-offs, and validate hardware-in-the-loop on robot platforms.
• Practice efficient debug across the full FPGA development cycle: self-checking testbenches and simulation, waveform and log analysis, board bring-up, embedded firmware (RISC‑V and MCU‑class) and host-side software integration.
• Automate validation and bring-up: regression suites, board-farm continuous integration, telemetry and logging tooling, and reproducible test-result reporting.
• Transform results into engineering collateral: contribute to reference designs, user guides, application notes and demo bring-up for tradeshows and customer engagements.
• Utilise AI to transform existing workflows into processes and interactions that are more meaningful and efficient.

Experience

• Final-year or penultimate-year student in Electrical, Electronic, Computer Systems or Computer Engineering. Demonstrated RTL design and verification (SystemVerilog/Verilog, FSM and datapath design, self-checking testbenches) and FPGA timing closure or resource analysis are required.
• Embedded C/C++ with DMA, interrupts and memory-mapped I/O. SoC integration with soft-core processors and an RTOS is a plus.
• Exposure to ML inference deployment, model compression (quantisation, pruning) or robotics control loops is a strong plus.
• Ability to work through ambiguities and build frameworks that scale the team to more platforms and higher-complexity integration.
• Outstanding communication and documentation skills. Excel in working across functional teams, sites and cultures.
• Availability for a 12-week placement between December 2026 and February 2027, Penang-based.

Additional Information

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in: Malaysia

Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce, some 1,000 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com. You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.