Staff Application Engineer

754 Altera Semiconductor Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd.; George Town; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

754 Altera Semiconductor Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd. in Penang, Malaysia seeks a Staff Application Engineer with 10+ years in 5G and DSP to enable next-gen designs.

You will work with R&D and customer teams, drive design enablement, and deliver training on new features. This role emphasizes collaboration across sites and international projects. The successful candidate should have strong RTL-based design experience and hands-on FPGA/ASIC processes, with proven communication skills in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 10+ years in architecture, design, or implementation in 5G and DSP.
• Experience with RTL-based design flows and FPGA/ASIC processes.
• Excellent technical communication across teams and sites.

Responsibilities

• Handle key customer escalations from analysis to closure.
• Collaborate with field teams and distributors to improve designs and customer experience.
• Develop training materials on new features and methodologies.
• Participate in development projects as part of international cross-organizational teams.

Skills

RTL design flows

FPGA/ASIC design

Timing closure

Technical communication

Teamwork

Education

Electronics/EE/CS degree

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.

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