Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

Job Title

Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

Role Summary

Provide technical sales support to drive adoption of Altera FPGA solutions at customer accounts. Work with sales, product, and engineering teams to position FPGA-based architectures, deliver technical demonstrations, and ensure customer designs meet requirements.

Experience Level

Mid-level — the posting requests an experienced hardware engineer (approximately 3+ years of relevant experience).

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Drive FPGA adoption at assigned customer accounts and identify new opportunities.
• Collaborate with field sales, FAEs, factory applications, product marketing, and business development.
• Build and maintain relationships with customer engineering teams.
• Demonstrate product value and position FPGA solutions for specific customer applications.
• Support architecture definition, solution evaluation, and design implementation using FPGAs, IP, and development tools.
• Develop and deliver technical demonstrations and participate in on-site customer design reviews.
• Diagnose, reproduce, and resolve or escalate customer technical issues.
• Provide timely feedback to manufacturing and product teams on product issues and market requirements.

Requirements

Must-have and preferred technical qualifications (education items are summarized in the Education Requirements section below):

• Must-have: ~3+ years of hardware engineering experience, including FPGA, ASIC, and/or digital design.
• Must-have: Experience with FPGA development tools (examples: Quartus, Vivado).
• Must-have: Experience with hardware description languages or high-level synthesis (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, OpenCL, HLS).
• Must-have: Ability to perform technical demonstrations and support on-site customer visits; willingness to travel as needed.
• Must-have: Eligibility for any required U.S. export authorizations.
• Nice-to-have: Experience in technical sales, applications, or product marketing roles.
• Nice-to-have: Additional industry experience such as embedded SoC design, ASIC/ASSP, CPU/microcontroller architecture, ARM-based solutions, board-level design, DSP, or signal integrity.

Education Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) or a related electrical/electronic degree is stated. Post‑bachelor's degrees (master's/PhD) are listed as preferred.

About the Company

Company: Altera

Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Altera provides leadership programmable solutions for applications ranging from cloud to edge, unveiling limitless AI possibilities. Their extensive product portfolio includes FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, and System on Modules aimed at accelerating innovation in various fields.