Senior Applications Engineer

Lattice Semiconductor; Penang; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading semiconductor company in Malaysia is seeking an experienced Applications Engineer to support high-speed IPs and collaborate with vendors and customers. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in FPGA development, excellent English communication skills, and a proven track record of delivering hardware products. Responsibilities include bridging the customer-factory relationship and executing industry-leading solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a relevant field.
• Hands-on FPGA and/or firmware bring-up/debugging experience required.
• Expertise in FPGA design flows is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Support high-speed IPs & designs, vendors and customers.
• Bridge customer-factory relationships and provide solutions.
• Participate in all aspects of product development.

Skills

FPGA configuration

Physical interface standards

Timing closure

FPGA development

Verilog and/or VHDL

English communication

Education

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Signal analyzers

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. 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.

Responsibilities & Skills

Join the winning team! Lattice is looking for a motivated and experienced factory Applications Engineer to support high-speed IPs & designs, vendors and customers with our current and future industry-leading devices. As part of the Product Enablement team, we bridge the customer‑factory relationship, clear technical hurdles and provide timely and reliable solutions. While Lattice is successful in helping our customers slash their time-to-market and bottom-line with our market‑driven solutions, we want to continue to invite experts to challenge the status quo. Our IP Product Enablement team is seeking an outstanding team member to help design and execute "best‑in‑class" solutions for our best‑in‑class low power, small form factor, high reliability and performance product line.

Specific job skill requirements

• Experience in FPGA configuration, memory standards or high speed interfaces is an advantage.
• Experience in a wide variety of physical interface standards, including SSTL, HSTL, LVSTL, HSUL is highly desirable.
• Experience in timing closure, PLL/DLLs, physical interface strategies and signal integrity is highly desirable.
• Hands‑on FPGA development experience, including RTL development and verification is highly desirable.

General requirements:

• BS/MS in EE with 5+ years of experience
• Hands‑on FPGA and/or firmware bring‑up/debugging experience using oscilloscopes and signal analyzers is required.
• Expertise in FPGA design flows, Verilog and/or VHDL
• Outstanding English communication skills, both written and verbal required
• Hands‑on experience delivering revenue‑generating hardware products is required
• Participation in all aspects of product development, from architecture and specification through documentation, market release and customer support.
• Must be able to work independently and also in a team environment