Staff Application Engineer

Altera Corporation; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera is seeking a Staff Application Engineer in Penang to work with a seasoned Applications Engineering team on next-generation designs across FPGA/ASIC platforms. You will support customer escalations, collaborate with field teams, and contribute to international projects while developing training materials and collateral.

The role requires a strong background in RTL-based design, FPGA/ASIC design processes, and timing closure, with excellent communication and teamwork across sites.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Electronics, Electrical or Software Engineering with 10+ years in architecture, design or implementation in 5G/DSP.
• Excellent knowledge of RTL-based design flows and expectations.
• Good understanding of FPGA or ASIC design process and tool flow with timing closure experience.
• Experience with Quartus and related design methodologies.
• Strong problem solving and clear technical communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Handle key customer escalations from analysis to closure.
• Collaborate with field teams and distributors to improve designs and customer experience.
• Participate in international cross-organizational projects and develop collateral.
• Develop and deliver training materials on new features and methodologies.
• Stay current with industry approaches and best practices.

Skills

RTL-based design flows

FPGA/ASIC design process

Timing closure

Problem solving

Technical communication

Teamwork across sites

Education

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

Tools

Quartus tool

Job description

## Staff Application EngineerApply: Penang 15, Penang, Malaysia: Full time: Posted Today: R03297# **Job Details:**### ## **Job Description:**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 InnovatorsAltera 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.