Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

Job Title

Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

Role Summary

The Field Applications Engineer provides technical support to customers adopting FPGA, SoC, and embedded solutions. The role partners with customers, sales, and product engineering to enable design-ins, accelerate time-to-market, and resolve system-level issues.

This is a customer-facing, technically deep position focused on FPGA implementation, board bring-up, troubleshooting, and influencing product roadmap based on customer requirements.

Experience Level

Senior-level — requires 10+ years of relevant experience in FPGA design, digital logic, embedded systems, or applications engineering.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include technical customer engagement, design-in support, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Serve as the primary technical interface for customers evaluating and designing with Altera FPGAs, SoCs, IP, and tools.
• Assess customer architectures, performance needs, and constraints to recommend devices, IP, and development flows.
• Deliver technical presentations, hands-on workshops, product demonstrations, and feasibility analyses.
• Support the full design cycle: RTL development, synthesis, timing closure, power optimization, and board bring-up.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving FPGA logic, embedded processors, high-speed interfaces, memory subsystems, and power architectures.
• Develop reference designs, application notes, and best-practice guides to accelerate customer designs.
• Collaborate with internal engineering to reproduce issues, validate fixes, and influence roadmap priorities.
• Work with sales on opportunity qualification, competitive positioning, and technical strategy; represent the company at customer meetings and industry events.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience for this role.

• 10+ years of experience in FPGA design, digital logic design, embedded systems, or applications engineering.
• Strong proficiency in RTL (Verilog/VHDL), timing analysis, synthesis, and FPGA implementation flows.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and Ethernet; board-level design experience.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and customer-facing skills.
• Ability to travel to customer sites as needed and eligibility for any required U.S. export authorizations.
• Strong debugging skills using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and embedded debug tools.

Nice-to-have:

• Hands-on experience with Quartus, Platform Designer, and associated IP.
• Familiarity with AI/ML acceleration, DSP, or hardware/software co-design.
• Experience supporting enterprise customers or large-scale deployments.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

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.