Applications Engineer — FPGA Prototyping

Job Title

Applications Engineer — FPGA Prototyping

Role Summary

Provide technical sales and deployment support for Siemens FPGA prototyping hardware and software to customers in the Americas. Work with account teams to drive product evaluations, deployments, demos, and trainings to increase customer satisfaction and close sales opportunities.

This role is customer-facing and combines hands-on technical work with sales support across FPGA prototyping, verification, and related toolchains.

Experience Level

Mid-level — requires 5+ years of relevant experience in design, verification, simulation, emulation/prototyping of electronic chips and systems or recent experience as an Applications Engineer in a related field.

Responsibilities

The main responsibilities are to support sales through technical expertise, deploy solutions, and improve customer outcomes.

• Work directly with customers during product evaluations and deployments to meet technical milestones.
• Install, configure, and deploy Siemens FPGA prototyping hardware and software solutions on-site and remotely.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and remove obstacles to adoption.
• Deliver technical presentations, demos, and trainings to customers.
• Collaborate with sales management, account teams, and product teams to capture requirements and business opportunities.
• Provide product feedback and feature requests to development and product marketing teams.
• Build and maintain peer-level technical relationships with customer engineering teams.
• Travel within North America as required (approximately 10%).

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, practical experience, and compliance requirements. Education details are in the Education Requirements section below.

• Hands-on RTL design and verification: SystemVerilog, Verilog, and VHDL.
• ASIC and/or FPGA implementation experience (synthesis, place & route).
• Verification and simulation experience (SystemVerilog, SystemC, C/C++); familiarity with Questa/Incisive/VCS and OVM/UVM.
• Proficiency in scripting (Perl, Python, shell scripting, Makefiles) and working with XML/JSON.
• Practical industry experience with FPGA design flows and FPGA tools (proFPGA, HAPS, Xilinx Vivado, Intel/Altera Quartus) — listed as required by the role.
• Ability to deliver customer trainings and demos; good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Competitive, customer-driven mindset and strong problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites across North America (~10%).
• Must satisfy U.S. export control requirements (ITAR/EAR): U.S. Person status or ability to obtain required export authorization.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with emulation and static timing analysis.
• Previous applications or field engineering experience supporting sales for EDA or prototyping products.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (BS or MS). (Education requirement as stated in the source.)

About the Company

Company: Siemens

Headquarters: Munich, Germany

Siemens EDA is a leading global provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products and systems. Their innovative solutions enable companies to enhance the development of electronic products efficiently and effectively, keeping pace with the complex demands of technology and physics. Siemens is committed to delivering advanced workflow solutions that integrate both EDA and MCAD tools for multi-domain design and manufacturing in the semiconductor industry.