Staff Application Engineer

Altera; Bayan Lepas; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera in Penang, Malaysia, is seeking an experienced Staff Application Engineer to join the Worldwide Regional Applications group. You will handle customer escalations, collaborate with field teams and distributors, and contribute to cross-organizational projects with reference designs and training materials.

The role emphasizes deep RTL/FPGA/ASIC design knowledge, strong communication, and teamwork across sites.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Electronics, Electrical or Software Engineering with minimum 10 years of relevant experience in Architecture, Design, or implementation experience in 5G, DSP.
• Experience in Architecture, Design, or implementation in 5G and DSP; IEEE standard development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Handle key customer escalations from analysis to closure.
• Work closely with field team and distributors to help customers improve designs and experiences.
• Participate in development projects, possibly in international cross-organizational teams; may generate collateral and reference designs.
• Develop and deliver training materials on new features and methodologies.
• Develop strong local and international intra- and inter-organizational communication in a team-based environment.
• Stay current with industry approaches, algorithms, and practices and propose internal use.

Skills

RTL-based design flows

FPGA/ASIC design process

Quartus tool

Problem Solving

Technical Communication

Teamwork

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Electronics, Electrical or Software Engineering

Tools

Quartus tool

Job description

Job Description

The Staff Application Engineer position is in Worldwide Regional Applications group, located in Penang, Malaysia for an experienced application engineer.

Duties

• Handle key customer escalations from analysis to closure.
• Work closely with field team and distributors to help their customers to improve their designs, products and customer experience.
• Participation in development projects possibly as part of an international cross organizational team and may include the generation of collateral and reference designs
• Develop and deliver training materials on new features and methodologies.
• Development of strong local regional and international intra and inter organizational communication and cooperation in a team based collaborative environment
• Stay current with and propose the internal use of industry approaches, algorithms, and practices

Qualifications

BS/MS/PhD in Electronics, Electrical or Software Engineering with minimum 10 years of relevant experience in Architecture, Design, or implementation experience in 5G, DSP. Experience in Industrial Standard contribution (e.g. Driving new standard with IEEE) will be added advantages.

• Customer Awareness: Has excellent working knowledge of RTL-based design flows and expectations.
• Product Knowledge: Has good working knowledge of the entire FPGA or ASIC design process and tool flow, with intermediate-to-advanced understanding timing closure.
• Design Enablement: Has good understanding of design methodologies using Quartus tool
• Problem Solving: Ability to handle and solve complex system level issues.
• Technical Communication: Can simplify and communicate even the most complex subjects, making options, trade-offs, and impact clear. Can report out to management in a concise and actionable manner.
• Teamwork: Able to work with several teams across sites and domains with a positive attitude under variable workloads.

Job Type

Regular

Shift

Shift 1 (Malaysia)

Primary Location

Penang 15, Penang, Malaysia

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.