Altera
FPGA Design Applications Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
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About the role
- Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Responding to customer technical questions, debugging and reproducing customer issues, and driving issue resolution with the engineering organization and customers.
- The pay range below is for Bay Area California only.
Responsibilities
- Defining and developing example designs and unit tests and performing checkout to ensure the readiness of feature releases.
- 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.
- Altera is leading the way to transform how we design FPGAs.
Requirements
- 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
- A successful candidate should possess a Masters of Science degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or Bachelor of Science degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering with a minimum five years of related applications engineering or system design experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with Power and Thermal Analysis
- Familiarity with GitHub workflows and Visual Studio Code
- Experience with using AI tools and creating skills
Skills
- Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
Compensation
- The pay range below is for Bay Area California only.
Company info
- We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
- Creating example designs that showcase our product and teach customers how to use our software tools.
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