Signal Processing Specialist Field Applications Engineer (FAE) - West Region
AlteraJob Title
Signal Processing Specialist Field Applications Engineer (FAE) - West Region
Role Summary
The FAE serves as a technical advisor to customers, helping architect, develop, and deploy high-performance signal processing solutions using FPGA and heterogeneous compute technologies. This role connects customer requirements, field sales, and engineering to accelerate adoption across communications, aerospace & defense, industrial, and AI-driven applications.
Experience Level
Senior - requires extensive domain experience (see Requirements for details).
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership and customer-facing engineering support across the full design lifecycle.
- Act as primary technical advisor for signal processing applications on FPGA-based platforms.
- Engage with customer engineering teams to define system requirements and recommend architectures.
- Lead technical discussions covering DSP, communications, radar, imaging, AI/ML inference, and RF systems.
- Support pre-sales, qualify opportunities, and demonstrate solutions for real-time processing workloads.
- Guide customers from algorithm development and modeling through FPGA implementation and deployment.
- Develop reusable solution architectures, proofs-of-concept, demos, and technical collateral.
- Debug and resolve algorithmic, architectural, and implementation issues; optimize performance and hardware acceleration.
- Support DirectRF and RF signal-chain solutions (RF digitization, transport, processing, analytics) for radar, EW, SIGINT, SATCOM, and wireless.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, architecture, and business teams; deliver training and enablement materials.
- Drive measurable design wins, contribute to opportunity prioritization, and track engagement metrics.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and experience; preferred items listed separately.
- Must-have: 10+ years experience in signal processing, communications, radar, RF, imaging, or related domains.
- 10+ years developing FPGA-based or hardware-accelerated solutions.
- Strong understanding of digital signal processing concepts and implementation techniques.
- Experience with FPGA toolflows (Quartus, Vivado, or equivalent).
- Proficiency with MATLAB, Simulink, Python, C/C++, or similar signal-processing development tools.
- Experience modeling and validating signal-processing algorithms prior to hardware implementation.
- Ability to travel as required and eligibility for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- Nice-to-have: Experience in radar systems, electronic warfare, wireless communications, SATCOM, image/video processing, AI/ML for signal processing, software-defined radio, high-level design methodologies (DSP Builder, HLS, OneAPI), DirectRF familiarity, and prior customer-facing roles (FAE, solutions architecture, technical sales).
Education Requirements
Required: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Signal Processing, or a related STEM field. Preferred: Master's or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Computer Engineering, or a related 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.
