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Altera • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • Bachelor's Degree • 3 hours ago
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≈ $22k – $51k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (George Town)
Seniority
Staff · 10+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 13, 2026. Altera scores A on the Alion truth index.

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Altera

Altera is an American programmable logic company whose field programmable gate array business was founded in 1983, acquired by Intel in 2015 and separated again as a standalone company in 2025 when the private equity firm Silver Lake took a majority stake. It designs FPGAs and structured application specific integrated circuits used where a design must be reconfigurable after manufacture, which makes them common in communications infrastructure, industrial control, automotive, aerospace, defence and test equipment. Headquartered in San Jose, the company sells its Agilex and Cyclone device families alongside the Quartus design software engineers use to program them.
altera.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1983
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Backed by Horizon Technology Finance

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Job Description:

The Staff Application Engineer position is in Worldwide Regional Applications group, located in Penang, Malaysia for an experienced application engineer.

As a member of a highly seasoned Applications Engineering team, the successful candidate will work closely with several R&D teams, internal application design teams and key customers to enable the next generation of designs across the Agilex device families. Daily activities will include the following duties:

  • Handle key customer escalations from analysis to closure.
  • Work closely with field team and distributors to help their customers to improve their designs, products and customer experience.
  • Participation in development projects possibly as part of an international cross organizational team and may include the generation of collateral and reference designs
  • Develop and deliver training materials on new features and methodologies.
  • Development of strong local regional and international intra and inter organizational communication and cooperation in a team based collaborative environment
  • Stay current with and propose the internal use of industry approaches, algorithms, and practices

Qualifications:

BS/MS/PhD in Electronics, Electrical or Software Engineering with minimum 10 years of relevant experience in Architecture, Design, or implementation experience in 5G, DSP. Experience in Industrial Standard contribution (e.g. Driving new standard with IEEE) will be added advantages.

  • Customer Awareness: Has excellent working knowledge of RTL-based design flows and expectations.
  • Product Knowledge: Has good working knowledge of the entire FPGA or ASIC design process and tool flow, with intermediate-to-advanced understanding timing closure.
  • Design Enablement: Has good understanding of design methodologies using Quartus tool
  • Problem Solving: Ability to handle and solve complex system level issues.
  • Technical Communication: Can simplify and communicate even the most complex subjects, making options, trade-offs, and impact clear. Can report out to management in a concise and actionable manner.
  • Teamwork: Able to work with several teams across sites and domains with a positive attitude under variable workloads.

Job Type:

Regular

Shift:

Shift 1 (Malaysia)

Primary Location:

Penang 15, Penang, Malaysia

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Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
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