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Altera · 5 hours ago

Senior FPGA System Level Applications Engineer

positionSan Jose, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$127K/yr - $184K/yr
date7+ years exp

Altera is seeking a highly motivated, hands-on FPGA Application Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will provide technical support to customers and sales teams, assist in design and verification of high-performance FPGAs, and develop collateral to ensure customer success with Altera products.

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Responsibilities

Provide technical support to Altera customers and sales teams in the areas of Transceivers, PCIe, Ethernet, and/or External Memory Interfaces
Help resolve challenging customer issues and develop proactive collateral to make our customers successful using Altera products
Work closely with field engineering and customer design teams, including on-site technical support, to assist in design and verification of high-performance FPGAs using Intel and third-party design software (e.g. Quartus, ModelSim)
Perform design evaluations and recommend strategies to optimize designs for important design opportunities
Create example designs and reference designs to demonstrate the usage of Intel products
Develop technical collateral and presentations for internal and external audiences
Evaluate new software/IP and provide feedback to developers to improve the quality of Intel tools, IP, and methodologies
Anticipate future customer requirements and contribute to product planning and definition of product enhancements

Qualification

FPGA design experiencePCIe interfacesEthernet interfacesVHDL codingVerilog codingSystem Verilog codingTiming AnalysisCustomer support experienceEmpathy & PatienceClear CommunicationRelationship BuildingTeamwork & Collaboration

Required

Master of Science degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science, or alternatively a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering with 7+ years of related FPGA and system design experience with PCIe, Ethernet and memory interfaces
7+ years of total experience, experience should include FPGA and/or ASIC experience (e.g. VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog coding, validation and/or simulation/verification tools)

Preferred

10+ years of experience with FPGA and/or ASIC including Verilog and/or VHDL coding and simulation/verification tools
Design experience using FPGAs with high-speed serial transceivers, high-speed board design, and high-speed serial bus protocols PCIe and/or Ethernet and video protocols
Experience in customer support or customer facing role
Timing Analysis Experience

Company

Altera

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Altera provides programmable logic devices and design software for various applications. It is a sub-organization of Intel.
dateFounded in 1983
location
San Jose, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
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https://www.altera.com

H1B Sponsorship

Altera has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (39)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
unknown
2025-04-14Acquired
1988-03-31IPO

Leadership Team

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Raghib Hussain
Chief Executive Officer
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