FPGA Systems Engineer for Aerospace & Defense DSP

altera; 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 Aerospace, Defense, and Government solutions team in San Jose, CA. You will architect, implement, optimize, and benchmark advanced DSP and embedded computing solutions on Altera FPGA platforms, collaborating with customers and internal tool teams.

Responsibilities include designing FPGA-based solutions with RTL and Verilog/VHDL, developing benchmarks and reference designs, optimizing performance, and contributing to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of FPGA design and algorithm implementation.
• 2+ years of software development using C/C++.
• 1+ year of FPGA development using Verilog or VHDL.
• Strong understanding of digital logic design and FPGA development methodologies.
• Experience debugging and validating complex hardware/software systems.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

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 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++ programming

Verilog/VHDL

digital logic design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

Quartus Prime

ModelSim/Questa

RTOS

Job description

Altera is seeking a highly motivated FPGA System Design Engineer to join our Aerospace, Defense, and Government solutions team in San Jose, CA. You will architect, implement, optimize, and benchmark advanced DSP and embedded computing solutions on Altera FPGA platforms, collaborating with customers and internal tool teams.

Responsibilities include designing FPGA-based solutions with RTL and Verilog/VHDL, developing benchmarks and reference designs, optimizing performance, and contributing to