About Altera:
Accelerating Innovators — Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy to use and deploy, across the cloud to the edge, enabling limitless possibilities for AI. Our broad portfolio includes FPGAs, SoCs, CPLDs, IP, development tools, system-on-modules, SmartNICs and IPUs, offering the flexibility to accelerate innovation.
Our innovation in programmable logic began in 1983. Since then we’ve delivered the tools and technologies that empower customers to innovate, differentiate, and succeed in their markets.
Join us on our journey to becoming the world’s #1 FPGA company!
About the Role:
Altera is leading the way to transform how we design FPGAs. In this position, you will be joining the North American Factory Applications Team as an FPGA Design Applications Engineer specializing in Quartus Software tools and system solutions. You will help revolutionize our customer experience by using new technologies to showcase our software tools and support our customers.
A successful candidate is an FPGA designer who has hands-on experience with FPGA design software tools and knows how to design, simulate, and debug FPGA designs.
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
Reviewing product requirements and designing a best-in-class customer journey by identifying assets, use cases, user personas and touchpoints (web, git repository, forums etc.).
Developing technical assets such as user guides, application notes, example designs, demos and training that will enable users to successfully design with our products.
Reviewing specifications and requirements, performing product evaluations and providing feedback on ease of use.
Defining and developing example designs and unit tests and performing checkout to ensure the readiness of feature releases.
Responding to customer technical questions, debugging and reproducing customer issues, and driving issue resolution with the engineering organization and customers.
Salary Range
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor within the US market. 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.
$91,800K - $132,900K USD
*We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position.*
Qualifications:Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering (or related field) with a minimum of 3+ years of related applications engineering or system design experience OR a Master of Science degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering (ore related field) with a minimum of 3+ of related applications engineering or system design experience
Experience with FPGA Design Software tools and common third-party simulators
Experience with debugging FPGAs
Experience with creating FPGA designs using RTL (Verilog, VHDL or SystemVerilog) combined with IP and system software
Experience working with FPGA development boards or similar
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Power and Thermal Analysis tools
Familiarity with TCL and Python
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