Senior Staff Applications Engineer

Lattice Semiconductor; Penang; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in programmable logic solutions is seeking a factory Applications Engineer to join their IP Product Enablement team in Penang, Malaysia. The candidate will support high-speed designs and vendors, contributing significantly to reducing time-to-market for innovative devices. Applicants should possess extensive experience in FPGA development and physical interface standards, alongside exceptional communication abilities.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in relevant engineering.
• Hands-on FPGA and/or firmware debugging required.
• Experience in delivering revenue-generating products essential.

Responsibilities

• Support high-speed IPs & designs, bridging customer relationships.
• Execute best-in-class solutions for low power, small form factor products.
• Participate in all aspects of product development from architecture to customer support.

Skills

Image/video processing

High speed interfaces

Signal integrity

FPGA development

Verilog

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 IP 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 image/video processing, 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 15+ 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