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Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer

Lattice Semiconductor
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/14/2026
Lattice Overview

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality. Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Responsibilities & Skills

A successful candidate will join a team designing and developing Lattice FPGA software tools in San Jose. The candidate will contribute to research, design and development of the software FPGA device model and configuration bitstream generation tools. The candidate is expected to work closely with cross-functional teams to plan and execute Lattice FPGA software release cycle including requirement analysis, feature scoping, development, testing and validation. The candidate also will be responsible for maintaining existing software product tools and develop improvement plan to increase the test coverage to achieve high product quality.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors, Masters, or better in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related fields with 10 years of experience in EDA SW Tool development
  • Strong communication skills
  • Knowledge or experience in FPGA architecture and FPGA software tools, specifically for device modeling and/or bitstream generation
  • Programming skills (C and Python)
  • Hands-on experience in RTL design and digital design, testbench development, logic verification, timing closure and debugging including board validation

Benefits

The base pay for this role is between $193,000 to $242,000 per year. In addition to base salary, we offer an incentive plan bonus, and new hire equity for a competitive total compensation package.

Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce, some 800 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com . You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.

Salary : $193,000 - $242,000

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