Staff Application Engineer

Altera; George Town; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera in Penang, Malaysia is seeking a Staff Application Engineer to join the Worldwide Regional Applications group. You will work with R&D teams and customers to enable next-generation designs across FPGA/ASIC platforms, leveraging 5G and DSP expertise.

In this role you will handle customer escalations, collaborate with field teams and distributors, contribute to development projects, and develop training materials on new features and methodologies while promoting best practices across sites.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Electronics, Electrical or Software Engineering with 10+ years in Architecture/Design/5G/DSP.
• Experience with RTL-based design flows and FPGA/ASIC design processes.
• Industrial standard contributions (IEEE) are a plus.
• Strong problem solving and ability to report concisely to management.

Responsibilities

• Handle key customer escalations from analysis to closure.
• Work with field team and distributors to improve customer designs and experience.
• Participate in development projects, possibly international, with collateral and reference designs.
• Develop and deliver training materials on new features and methodologies.
• Foster strong intra- and inter-organizational communication in a team environment.
• Stay current with and propose industry approaches, algorithms, and practices.

Skills

Customer awareness

Technical communication

Teamwork

Problem solving

Design enablement

Education

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

Tools

Quartus tool

Job description

Job Details

The Staff Application Engineer position is in Worldwide Regional Applications group, located in Penang, Malaysia for an experienced application engineer. As a member of a highly seasoned Applications Engineering team, the successful candidate will work closely with several R&D teams, internal application design teams and key customers to enable the next generation of designs across the Agilex device families.

Daily activities will include the following 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 Additional Locations:

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.

About Altera Altera

Accelerating Innovators Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.