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Transceivers & Protocol IP Application Engineer

San Jose, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $149,100–$149,100🗓 2026-08-26 → 2026-09-26

Core

Trusted technical advisor guiding customers and partners through the full FPGA design cycle for high-speed transceiver and protocol IP solutions, from architecture selection to production readiness.

Role type

Senior IC Application Engineer (High-Speed Transceivers & Protocol IP)

Builds

FPGA-based systems utilizing high-speed serial interfaces (Ethernet, PCIe, JESD204, CPRI, etc.)

Domain

Semiconductor / High-Speed Digital Design / FPGA

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure

Required skills

FPGA design flows, high-speed serial interfaces, transceiver PHY concepts, clocking/PLL/CDR, RTL debugging, hardware description languages, scripting (Python/Tcl/Bash/C/C++)

Preferred skills

Altera FPGA families (Agilex/Stratix/Arria/Cyclone), board-level bring-up, eye-diagram/BER analysis, EDA tools (Quartus/ModelSim/Questa), technical documentation

Technologies

Quartus Prime, System Console, Signal Tap, Transceiver Toolkit, ModelSim, Questa, Python, Tcl, Bash, C, C++, Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL

Responsibilities

Provide expert guidance on transceiver PHYs and protocol IP; diagnose and resolve complex hardware/software issues; review customer architectures and RTL; develop debug scripts and automation; conduct technical training and workshops; collaborate on product pre-enablement and defect resolution.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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