Senior/Staff SW Development Engineer

Lattice Semiconductor; Penang; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lattice Semiconductor in Penang, Malaysia, seeks a Senior/Staff Software Development Engineer to build and modernize software for FPGA flows and HW-SW co-design tools. The role emphasizes strong C/C++ skills, system-level thinking, and advancing code quality.

You will tackle legacy code, design robust modular solutions, and help drive automated testing and CI/CD practices across projects. Sponsorship and relocation are not specified.

Qualifications

• Strong C/C++ expertise with large, legacy code modernization.
• Experience refactoring for modular, maintainable systems.
• Proven track record in automated testing and code quality.
• Ability to mentor engineers and drive design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and modernize software for FPGA flows and HW-SW co-design tools.
• Refactor legacy code into modular, robust systems.
• Mentor engineers and guide design decisions, solve bottlenecks.
• Drive automated testing, CI/CD, and code quality standards.

Skills

C/C++

Systems architecture

Code quality

Technical leadership

CI/CD

Static analysis

Automated testing

Tools

CI/CD

Static analysis

Automated testing

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.

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Senior/Staff SW Development Engineer to join our team to build and modernize software for FPGA flows and HW-SW co-design tools.

If you have a strong background in C/C++ and enjoy solving complex system-level challenges — transforming legacy code into modular, robust, and future-proof systems — we’d love to connect.

What we are looking for:

• Deep C / C++ Expertise: Strong foundation in C/C++ with the ability to navigate, debug, and modernize large, complex codebases into Modern C++.
• Systems Architecture & Code Quality: Proven experience in refactoring legacy systems, improving performance, modularity, memory footprint, and maintainability.
• Engineering Best Practices: Track record of driving robust automated testing, CI/CD, static analysis, and code quality standards.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to mentor engineers, guide design decisions, and solve tough debugging/performance bottlenecks.

Valuable (but not mandatory) domains: Experience in any of: FPGA tools or EDA software development, embedded systems, device programming, or HW-SW modeling.

How we work: We are actively integrating GenAI-augmented engineering workflows into our development lifecycle to accelerate legacy code analysis, refactoring, debugging, and test automation.

Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:

Malaysia

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce, some 1,000 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com. You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.