About this Embedded Applications Engineer role at Altera
Job Details:
Job Description:
Do you enjoy designing with FPGAs? Would you like to be part of passionate and highly talented team of applications engineers working on the next generation technologies that will transform the industry?
Altera is leading the way to transform the embedded market with a broad portfolio of FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Array), offering a wide variety of power/performance options. As an Embedded Security Applications Engineer, you will have the following responsibilities:
- Leading application pre-enabling, product development, and/or product hardening to launch future products and provide customer support.
- Enable customers to be ready for the Post-Quatum Cryptography (PQC) future by helping them to secure their devices from these future threats.
- Engage as a technical expert or trusted technical advisor to drive Altera value and differentiation in applications requiring system-level security
- Utilize deep domain and market segment expertise to research, develop, and prototype software that leverages and drives adoption of Altera product capabilities.
- Deliver collateral and training, including competitive/differentiated benchmarks, as well as identify and drive key workloads into product requirements and landing zones for future product design, simulation, projection methods, and tools.
- Drive product improvements that minimize the need for explicit enabling and maximize scale adoption.
Qualifications:
You must possess the below minimum education requirements and minimum required qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Relevant experience can be obtained through schoolwork, classes, project work, internships, and/or military experience. Additional preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
Education:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM fields (documentation related to Bachelor's degree completion will be required).
Minimum Qualifications:
Must have 2+ years of experience in:
- Embedded software engineering or system design.
- Applications-class embedded processors and embedded design.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cryptographic techniques, including authentication and encryption
- Device-level security
- Side-channel attack mitigation
- Secure manufacturing protocols
- Applications-class embedded processors and embedded design
- FPGA devices, configuration methods and FPGA design software
- Debug and troubleshooting skills across processor and FPGA platforms
- SW including Boot software (ATF or Uboot), BIOS and drivers
- Operating Systems such as Windows, Linux
- Hardware/board debug.
