Senior/Staff Configuration Applications Engineer - Penang 15, Penang, Malaysia
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer — open 2 days.
About the role
This role involves leading application pre-enabling, product development, and customer support for FPGA configuration and programming solutions. The position focuses on providing technical expertise and driving product improvements for Altera's FPGA configuration solutions.
What you'll do
- Lead application pre-enabling, product development, and product hardening to launch future products and provide customer support.
- Serve as a technical expert to drive value and differentiation in configuration enablement.
- Deliver collateral and training for Altera’s FPGA configuration and programming solutions.
- Debug configuration-related issues, determine root cause, and drive corrective action.
- Develop and validate design examples on development kits to showcase Altera FPGA configuration features.
- Develop technical documentation such as device handbook, user guides, tutorials, and application notes for FPGA configuration methods.
What you'll need
- 3+ years of experience in board bring up and systematic debugging skills.
- Analytical with strong problem-solving skills and ability to drive issues to closure.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: FPGA and CPLD technologies, digital logic design, industrial I/O standards, flash interfaces, RTL, Verilog/VHDL programming, C and Python programming, or hardware/board debug.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English.
Nice to have
- Embedded boot (Uboot, Linux).
- Board logic design including device interconnection, flash interfaces.
- Experience in device security (including encryption and authentication).
Skills: FPGA, configuration, customer support, technical expert, debug issues
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 67-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
190
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Median days open
67 d
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Median salary
$158k
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| Metric | Altera | All employers we track in this specialty (190 roles · 17 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 190 |
| Median days open | 2 d | 67 d (−65 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $158k |
Skills observed across this category: FPGA, configuration, customer support, technical expert, debug issues
Who's hiring in this category
- KLA Corporation · 49 open roles · median 88 d
- Teradyne · 45 open roles · median 38 d
- Applied Materials · 33 open roles · median 103 d
- Keysight Technologies · 14 open roles · median 43 d
- Lam Research · 10 open roles · median 105 d
- ASML · 8 open roles · median 89 d
How we counted: 190 open Applications FAE (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.