Senior FPGA RTL & Firmware Lead

754 Altera Semiconductor Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd.; George Town; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

754 Altera Semiconductor Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd. in Penang, Malaysia, seeks an experienced FPGA RTL and Firmware Development Engineer to lead platform hardware solutions and validation.

You will architect and implement FPGA RTL using Verilog/VHDL, develop embedded firmware for Nios II, and collaborate with architecture, board design, silicon, and software teams to deliver robust development kits and validation boards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of FPGA RTL design, implementation, and system-level validation.
• Strong hands-on Verilog and/or VHDL, digital logic, and computer architecture.
• Experience with Nios II soft-core firmware and peripheral access.

Responsibilities

• Define, architect, design, implement, and validate FPGA RTL solutions for platform hardware and development kits.
• Lead the complete FPGA development flow: planning, simulation, synthesis, timing analysis, and timing closure.
• Develop and maintain embedded firmware in C/C++ for FPGA-based systems, focusing on Nios II.
• Translate requirements into scalable RTL, firmware interfaces, and verification strategies.
• Support board bring-up, hardware-software integration, and system initialization.

Skills

Verilog

VHDL

C/C++

Nios II

Altera Quartus II

FPGA development

lab debugging

RTL design

embedded firmware

cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

Quartus II

EDS

Nios II toolchain

Platform Designer/Qsys

Job description

754 Altera Semiconductor Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd. in Penang, Malaysia, seeks an experienced FPGA RTL and Firmware Development Engineer to lead platform hardware solutions and validation.

You will architect and implement FPGA RTL using Verilog/VHDL, develop embedded firmware for Nios II, and collaborate with architecture, board design, silicon, and software teams to deliver robust development kits and validation boards.