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Senior FPGA System Level Applications Engineer

Altera
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/9/2025 CLOSED ON 1/30/2026

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Job Details

Job Description:

Altera Sales team is seeking a highly motivated, hands-on FPGA Application Engineer to join our team!

As a FPGA Application Engineer, you will provide technical support to Altera customers and sales teams in the areas of Transceivers, PCIe, Ethernet, and/or External Memory Interfaces. You will be responsible for helping resolve challenging customer issues and developing proactive collateral to make our customers successful using Altera products.

In this role, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following: 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.

Essential Soft Skills

  • Clear Communication: Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to customers with varying levels of expertise.
  • Empathy & Patience: Supporting customers calmly and effectively under pressure.
  • Relationship Building: Establishing trust and positive rapport to foster successful engagements.
  • Teamwork & Collaboration: Working cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and engineering teams to deliver unified solutions.

Why Join Us?

  • Be at the forefront of programmable logic technology, enabling the world’s leading innovations.
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative environment with talented engineers.
  • Expand your expertise in the complete FPGA design ecosystem, from architecture to tools to customer deployment.
  • Shape the future of Quartus Prime and Altera FPGA solutions with your technical insights.

Salary Range

The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.

$127.4K - $184.4K USD

We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position.

Qualifications

The successful candidate should possess a 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.

Minimum Qualifications

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 Qualifications

One or more of the following is considered a plus factor.

  • 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

Job Type

Regular

Shift

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:

San Jose, California, 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.

Salary : $127,400 - $184,400

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