Senior FPGA Silicon Validation Engineer

Hardware & Electrical

Altera Corporation is hiring a Senior FPGA Silicon Validation Engineer in San Francisco, California. Posted 6 October 2026. Apply directly on Altera Corporation's own careers site — no account needed.

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Job Details:

Job Description:

Defines and develops FPGA designs that mimics customer use model and enables FPGA silicon validation, IP, SW, tools, and integration.
Defines and delivers continuous improvement of silicon validation environment and methodologies.
Develops lab-based test environments and synthetic test content to characterize and test functionality, performance, and power and subsequently qualifies them for product release.
Applies various hardware and software level tools and techniques to ensure functional coverage and that performance and power goals are met.
Applies latest FPGA design flows, processes, and tools knowledge to improve quality and schedule.
Implements digital logic functions in FPGA prototypes and validates the trade-off between architecture and design alternatives.
Debugs and resolves silicon bring up issues, documents the solutions, troubleshoots, and debugs silicon from prototype to production.
Collaborates with architecture, design, software, firmware, and tools teams to define validation strategy, develop test plans, and drive execution.

You are required to know electrical validation knowledge on varies protocol such as PCIe, Ethernet and etc. The knowledge on signal integrity such as eye-diagram, jitter, BER and etc are essential.

You are expected to manage the program. Debug on the electrical/performance issue during the validation cycle.

Qualifications:

Bachelor with Electrical & Electronic(E&E) Engineering. Master with E&E Engineering is prefer.

Job Type:

Regular

Shift:

Shift 1 (Malaysia)

Primary Location:

Penang 15, Penang, Malaysia

Additional Locations:

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