Penang-Based Senior FPGA Tools & IP Lead

Altera Corporation; George Town; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Corporation in Penang, Malaysia seeks a Senior Technical Lead to drive FPGA IP development, modeling, and validation within the Quartus Prime ecosystem. This hands-on leadership role requires defining technical direction, mentoring engineers, and improving IP quality and simulation accuracy.

You will lead complex debugging, design reviews, and verification strategy, shaping best practices across the team and ensuring seamless integration with the FPGA toolchain.

Qualifications

• Experience in FPGA IP design or verification.
• Strong RTL design and verification expertise.
• Proven debugging of complex system-level issues and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with Quartus Prime or equivalent FPGA toolchains.
• Mentoring and developing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction for IP and simulation models.
• Lead design reviews, architecture discussions, and validation strategies.
• Develop FPGA IP and high-fidelity simulation models (Behavioral, Cycle-accurate).
• Define verification methodologies and oversee testbench architecture.
• Mentor engineers and raise team capability in debugging and design quality.

Skills

RTL design

SystemVerilog

VHDL

Simulation

Verification

Debugging

Leadership

Mentorship

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Quartus Prime

Python

Tcl

Job description

Altera Corporation in Penang, Malaysia seeks a Senior Technical Lead to drive FPGA IP development, modeling, and validation within the Quartus Prime ecosystem. This hands-on leadership role requires defining technical direction, mentoring engineers, and improving IP quality and simulation accuracy.

You will lead complex debugging, design reviews, and verification strategy, shaping best practices across the team and ensuring seamless integration with the FPGA toolchain.