FPGA Customer Quality Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and capable FPGA Customer Quality Engineer (CQE) to drive FPGA product quality, strengthening the end customer experience. In this role, you will directly debug, support, drive and resolve customer reported issues focusing on chip hardware, boards and systems. This role is external facing through close partnerships with Altera end customers, including coordination of internal functional teams to drive root cause and systemic quality improvements.

• Drive FPGA product quality by helping troubleshoot, debug, identify and resolve quality issues across hardware, firmware, software, board, system, and manufacturing, partnering with external customers, internal engineering, operations and supply chain teams.
• Meet with customers and manufacturing partners regularly (including travel on-site) for discussions and quality reviews to strengthen working partnerships and relationships, accelerate issue debug/resolution, and drive ongoing quality improvements.
• Ensure end‑end quality with internal improvement initiatives and reviews, partnering with Altera engineering and operations teams on issue investigations with root‑cause analysis, cross‑functional alignment, containment, internal correction/prevention actions and enforcement, timely communication and resolution.
• Partner with lead customers early to discuss and align on use cases, system level and environmental operating requirements, supporting product qualification and enabling collateral for production ramp‑up internally and at end‑customers.
• Develop and improve product quality and manufacturing data collection from external customers to support monitoring, testing, failure prediction/modeling, quality assessment and continuous improvement across Altera.

The pay range below is for Bay Area, California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job‑related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance: $118,900 – $210,000 USD.

• Minimum 10+ years of experience working with FPGA and/or ASIC products in one or more of the following areas: design, validation, test, quality engineering, lab debug, or applications engineering at component, hardware, or board level.
• 10+ years of experience applying digital logic design principles, including SRAM, FIFO, PLL, and related architectures.
• 7+ years of experience providing technical support to external customers for FPGA and/or ASIC‑based designs, including issue resolution and design guidance.
• 7+ years of experience leading FPGA and/or ASIC component debug activities, including root‑cause analysis and cross‑functional issue resolution.
• 7+ years of experience with board‑level design, bring‑up, validation, and/or debug of hardware systems.
• 7+ years of experience using FPGA development tools such as Altera Quartus or similar, with hands‑on knowledge of FPGA architecture, IP integration, and timing/voltage/temperature considerations.
• 5+ years of experience working with high‑speed interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, HDMI, USB, AXI, or similar protocols.

• 12+ years of experience working with FPGA and/or ASIC products in one or more of the following areas: design, validation, test, quality engineering, lab debug, or applications engineering at component, hardware, or board level.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective organizational and planning skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in cross‑functional team environments.
• Willingness and ability to travel for customer and partner engagements as needed.

Regular

Shift 1 (United States of America)

San Jose, California, United States

Any additional locations as required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.