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# FPGA Design Applications Engineer

- **Company:** Altera Corporation
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $133,200.0 - $212,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Unit Testing, Software Debugging, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Github, Microsoft Visual Studio, PCI Express, Software Tools, Signal Processing, Fpga Hardware, Git
- **Published:** October 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/e51cd488-37b8-4052-a16d-16dabcbf8e6d

## About the Role

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.

Minimum qualifications include:

 * 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

Preferred qualifications include:

 * Experience with Power and Thermal Analysis

 * Familiarity with GitHub workflows and Visual Studio Code

 * Experience with using AI tools and creating skills

 * Experience creating FPGA designs that include PCIe or SoC, including basic software

## Description

A successful candidate is an FPGA designer who has hands-on experience with FPGA design software and knows how to design, simulate and debug FPGA designs.

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

 * Creating example designs that showcase our product and teach customers how to use our software tools.

 * Responding to customer technical questions, debugging and reproducing customer issues, and driving issue resolution with the engineering organization and customers.

 * 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.

 * 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.).