FPGA Prototyping & Physical AI Intern (12-Week, Penang)

LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR MALAYSIA SDN. BHD.; Penang; On-site; MYR 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Lattice Semiconductor Malaysia invites final-year or penultimate-year students to join the Robotics & Systems Engineering team in Penang as an FPGA Prototyping & Physical AI intern. This role develops RTL design, SoC integration and AI-on-FPGA, working with prototype platforms and reference designs that feed worldwide engagements.

You will advance hardware-software co-design flows, debug across the FPGA cycle, and help automate validation.

Qualifications

• Final-year or penultimate-year student in Electrical, Electronic, Computer Systems or Computer Engineering.
• Demonstrated RTL design and verification (SystemVerilog/Verilog) and FPGA timing closure or resource analysis.
• Embedded C/C++ with DMA, interrupts and memory-mapped I/O; SoC integration with soft-core processors and 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 scalable frameworks across platforms and teams.
• Outstanding communication and documentation skills; cross-site collaboration.

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 CI, telemetry and logging tooling, and reproducible test-result reporting.
• Transform results into engineering collateral: reference designs, user guides, application notes and demo bring-up for tradeshows and customer engagements.
• Utilize AI to transform workflows into more meaningful processes and interactions.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

C/C++

FPGA timing closure

Documentation

Education

Final-year or penultimate-year student (Electrical/Electronic/Computer Systems/Computer Engineering)

Tools

Radiant

Propel

RISC-V

Job description

Lattice Semiconductor Malaysia invites final-year or penultimate-year students to join the Robotics & Systems Engineering team in Penang as an FPGA Prototyping & Physical AI intern. This role develops RTL design, SoC integration and AI-on-FPGA, working with prototype platforms and reference designs that feed worldwide engagements.

You will advance hardware-software co-design flows, debug across the FPGA cycle, and help automate validation.