FPGA Silicon Validation Engineer

Job Details

Job Description:

At Altera, we are pioneering the future of programmable logic and accelerating innovation across cloud, communications, industrial, and AI-driven systems. Our engineering teams develop world-class FPGA technology that enables customers to build highly adaptable and high-performance solutions.

We are seeking an FPGA Silicon Validation Engineer to join our Silicon Engineering organization. In this role, you will help ensure the quality and reliability of next-generation FPGA products by developing validation environments, executing silicon bring-up activities, and collaborating across architecture, design, and software teams. This position plays a critical role in validating functionality, performance, and power of complex FPGA devices prior to production release.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop FPGA designs that mimic customer use models and enable FPGA silicon validation across IP, software, tools, and system integration.
• Drive continuous improvement of silicon validation environments, methodologies, and test infrastructure.
• Develop lab-based validation environments and synthetic test content to characterize and verify functionality, performance, and power.
• Execute validation plans and qualify silicon for production release through structured testing and analysis.
• Apply hardware and software-level tools and techniques to ensure functional coverage and verify that performance and power targets are met.
• Utilize modern FPGA design flows, processes, and tools to improve validation quality and execution schedule.
• Implement digital logic functions in FPGA prototypes and evaluate trade-offs between architectural and design alternatives.
• Debug and resolve silicon bring-up issues, document findings, and troubleshoot problems from prototype stage through production release.
• Collaborate with architecture, design, firmware, software, and tools teams to define validation strategies, develop test plans, and drive execution across the product lifecycle.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 2 years of experience in silicon validation for complex semiconductor or FPGA-based systems.
• 2 years of experience with FPGA validation methodologies, including system-level validation and silicon debug.
• 2 years of experience working with FPGA development flows and tools, including RTL design, synthesis, and FPGA prototyping environments.
• 2 years of experience using lab instrumentation and debug tools (e.g., oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers) for hardware validation and debugging.
• 2 years of experience with hardware/software debug techniques, including root cause analysis of silicon issues.
• 2 years of experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams such as architecture, design, firmware, and software to execute validation strategies.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience validating complex FPGA or SoC-based systems in a lab environment.
• Familiarity with scripting or programming languages used in validation environments (e.g., Python, TCL, or C/C ).
• Experience developing automated validation infrastructure or test frameworks.
• Knowledge of performance and power characterization techniques for silicon devices.
  
  

Job Type

Regular

Shift

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:

Austin, Texas, United States

Additional Locations:

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.