AI-Driven FPGA Design & Applications Engineer

191 Altera Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive opportunities

Job summary

Altera is seeking an FPGA design applications engineer to join the Software Validation and Customer Experience Group. You will work with Quartus software tools and example designs to help customers design, simulate and debug FPGA solutions.

The role requires hands-on FPGA design software experience, strong collaboration with engineering and customers, and the ability to develop training materials, demos and technical assets.

Qualifications

• MS or BS with 5+ years of related applications engineering or system design experience.
• Experience with FPGA Design Software tools and common third‑party simulators.
• Experience with debugging and using signal analysis tools.
• Experience with creating FPGA designs including minimal software (BareMetal).
• Experience working with FPGA development boards or similar.

Responsibilities

• Creating example designs that showcase our product and teach customers how to use our software tools.
• Responding to customer technical questions, debugging and reproducing customer issues, and driving issue resolution with the engineering organization and customers.
• Reviewing specifications and requirements, performing product evaluations, and providing feedback on ease of use.
• Defining and developing example designs and unit tests and performing checkout to ensure the readiness of feature releases.
• Reviewing product requirements and designing a best‑in‑class customer journey by identifying assets, use cases, user personas and touchpoints (web, git repository, forums etc.).
• Developing technical assets such as user guides, application notes, example designs, demos and training that will enable users to successfully design with our products.
• Creating AI skills and agents to reduce customer design time.

Skills

FPGA design tools

Debugging and signal analysis

BareMetal FPGA designs

FPGA development boards

Education

MS in Computer/Electrical Engineering

BS in Computer/Electrical Engineering

Tools

GitHub workflows

Visual Studio Code

Job description

Altera is seeking an FPGA design applications engineer to join the Software Validation and Customer Experience Group. You will work with Quartus software tools and example designs to help customers design, simulate and debug FPGA solutions.

The role requires hands-on FPGA design software experience, strong collaboration with engineering and customers, and the ability to develop training materials, demos and technical assets.