Senior Signal Processing FAE – West Region (Remote)

Altera; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 167,000 - 267,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera is seeking a Signal Processing Specialist Field Applications Engineer to act as a technical advisor, architecting and deploying high‑performance signal processing solutions on FPGA and heterogeneous compute platforms. You will collaborate with customers, sales, and engineering to drive design wins across RF, radar, imaging, and AI-enabled workloads.

The role emphasizes deep signal processing expertise, system architecture, and hands-on design support from concept through deployment,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Signal Processing, or related STEM field.
• 10+ years of experience in signal processing, communications, radar, RF, imaging, or related domains.
• 10+ years of experience developing FPGA-based or hardware-accelerated solutions.
• Strong understanding of digital signal processing concepts and implementation techniques.
• Experience with FPGA development environments such as Quartus, Vivado, or equivalent.
• Proficiency with MATLAB, Simulink, Python, C/C++, or similar signal processing tools.
• Ability to travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical advisor for signal processing applications utilizing Altera FPGA solutions.
• Engage with customer engineering teams to understand system-level requirements and recommend optimized architectures.
• Lead discussions involving signal processing, communications, radar, imaging, AI/ML inference, and RF systems.
• Guide customers through the complete design cycle from algorithm development to FPGA deployment.
• Assist customers in evaluating performance, power, scalability, and system tradeoffs.

Skills

Digital signal processing

Customer-facing skills

Problem-solving

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Signal Processing, or related STEM field

Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Quartus

Vivado

MATLAB

Simulink

Python

C/C++

DSP Builder

OneAPI

Job description

Altera is seeking a Signal Processing Specialist Field Applications Engineer to act as a technical advisor, architecting and deploying high‑performance signal processing solutions on FPGA and heterogeneous compute platforms. You will collaborate with customers, sales, and engineering to drive design wins across RF, radar, imaging, and AI-enabled workloads.

The role emphasizes deep signal processing expertise, system architecture, and hands-on design support from concept through deployment,