Key skills
FPGA designRTL (Verilog/VHDL)timing analysishigh-speed interfacesembedded systemsAltera/Intel Quartuscustomer-facing skillsdebugging skillscommunication skillspresentation skillsAIMLProduct ManagementCommunicationCustomer SuccessSales
About this role
Altera is seeking a highly skilled Field Applications Engineer (FAE) to support customers adopting their industry-leading FPGA, SoC, and embedded solutions. In this customer-facing role, you will partner closely with customers and internal teams to drive successful design-ins and ensure customers realize the full value of Altera’s technology portfolio.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary technical interface for customers evaluating and designing with Altera FPGAs, SoCs, IP, and software tools
- Understand customer architectures, performance requirements, and design constraints to recommend optimal device families, IP blocks, and development flows
- Deliver technical presentations, hands‑on workshops, and product demonstrations tailored to customer needs
- Guide customers through feasibility analysis, device selection, and early‑stage design decisions
- Support customers through the full design cycle — from concept and RTL development to timing closure, power optimization, and board bring‑up
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving FPGA logic, embedded processors, high‑speed interfaces, memory subsystems, and power architectures
- Develop reference designs, application notes, and best‑practice guides to accelerate customer success
- Collaborate with internal engineering teams to reproduce issues, validate fixes, and influence roadmap priorities
- Partner with sales teams to support opportunity qualification, competitive positioning, and technical strategy
- Provide structured feedback to product management and engineering on customer requirements, emerging use cases, and competitive trends
- Represent Altera at customer meetings, industry events, and technical conferences
- Maintain deep knowledge of Altera’s FPGA architectures, Quartus toolchain, IP portfolio, and embedded software ecosystem
- Stay current on industry trends in AI/ML acceleration, high‑performance compute, networking, automotive, and industrial applications
- Mentor internal teams and contribute to technical enablement programs
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 10+ years of experience in FPGA design, digital logic design, embedded systems, or applications engineering
- Strong proficiency in RTL (Verilog/VHDL), timing analysis, synthesis, and FPGA implementation flows
- Experience with high‑speed interfaces (PCIe, DDR, Ethernet), embedded processors, or board‑level design
- Excellent communication, presentation, and customer‑facing skills
- Ability to travel to customer sites as needed
- Hands‑on experience with Altera/Intel Quartus, Platform Designer, and associated IP
- Familiarity with AI/ML acceleration, DSP, or hardware/software co‑design
- Experience supporting enterprise customers or large‑scale deployments
- Strong debugging skills using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and embedded debug tools