FPGA Systems Engineer – Defense, AI & DSP Innovation

191 Altera Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 119,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera is seeking a highly motivated FPGA System Design Engineer to join our ADG solutions team. You will architect, implement, and benchmark advanced signal processing and embedded computing solutions on Altera FPGA platforms for aerospace and defense applications.

You will collaborate with customer engineering teams and internal tool developers to accelerate success, optimize DSP and AI inference, and deliver reference designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement FPGA-based solutions using RTL, DSP Builder, and embedded processor technologies for defense and aerospace applications.
• Partner directly with strategic customers to deploy and optimize DSP, communications, AI, and signal processing algorithms on Altera FPGA devices.
• Develop benchmarks, proof-of-concept demonstrations, reference designs, and complete system solutions that showcase FPGA performance and value.
• Collaborate closely with FPGA software and tools teams to identify customer needs, drive tool enhancements, and influence future product features.
• Analyze system-level performance and optimize FPGA implementations for throughput, latency, power, and resource utilization.
• Support customer design activities including architecture reviews, debugging, performance tuning, and technical enablement.
• Contribute technical collateral including design documentation, application notes, training materials, and best-practice guides.

Skills

FPGA design

C/C++ software

Verilog/VHDL

Digital logic design

Debugging/validation

Strong communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

CUDA

Quartus Prime

ModelSim/Questa

RTOS

Job description

Altera is seeking a highly motivated FPGA System Design Engineer to join our ADG solutions team. You will architect, implement, and benchmark advanced signal processing and embedded computing solutions on Altera FPGA platforms for aerospace and defense applications.

You will collaborate with customer engineering teams and internal tool developers to accelerate success, optimize DSP and AI inference, and deliver reference designs.