Field Applications Engineer

Achronix Semiconductor Corporation is a fabless semiconductor corporation based in Santa Clara, California, offering high-performance FPGA solutions. Achronix is the only supplier to have both high-performance and high-density standalone FPGAs and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) solutions in high-volume production. Achronix’s FPGA and eFPGA IP offerings are further enhanced by ready-to-use PCIe accelerator cards targeting AI, ML, networking and data center applications. All of Achronix’s products are supported by best-in-class EDA software tools.

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Working directly with customers on designs to improve the FPGA quality of results (QoR)
• Provide pre-sales technical leadership and post-sales, first-level applications support through calls, emails and on-site visits for new and existing customers including resolving customer issues relating to prototyping and post-production support
• Presenting Achronix products to prospective customers
• Training sales personnel on technical details of Achronix products
• New product proposals and definition of new product specification requirements
• Maintaining effective working relationships with key engineering contacts, sales representatives and distributor FAEs
• Attend trade shows and conferences to continue to build the Achronix network and assist the outbound marketing team in ensuring that the Achronix line of products stays in the spotlight
• Work closely with Achronix Systems and Applications Engineering teams to put together technical slide decks to showcase Achronix-based use cases and tailor them appropriately for customer engagements
• Help develop reference/demo designs and other technical collateral like user guides and application notes to highlight and document Achronix technology and ACE tool features for customers
• Travel is required

Required Skills

• Self-motivated, self-starter, proactive, and able to effectively work remotely
• High degree of persistence and discipline
• Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills, ideally in customer-facing roles, with ability to multitask and manage projects
• Solid understanding of FPGA/programmable logic architecture and design flows
• Basic knowledge for navigating a Linux-based system
• Background in back-end (ASIC) implementation methodology, concepts and tools
• Familiarity with IP deliverables including, but not limited to, GDSII, LEF, lib files and CPM
• Knowledge of SoC architectures and expertise in commonly used SerDes and memory interface protocol IPs like PCIe, 400G Ethernet and GDDR6/DDR4/5
• Understanding of hardware acceleration for wireless, data center, HPC and AI applications
• Strong logic design, verification and STA experience
• Verilog expertise; System Verilog and VHDL knowledge is a plus
• High-level synthesis knowledge
• Understanding of embedded processor solutions (ARM, RISC-V, etc.)
• Experience in delivering training and webinars a plus

Education and Experience

• BSEE, BEng or BSc degree
• Ten years’ experience working in an applications, system-level or architect role for IP, ASIC and/or SoC solutions
• Recent and extensive (at least 3 years) hands-on FPGA/ASIC design experience, including development with Verilog/VHDL and common FPGA/ASIC software tools
• Thorough understanding of high performance applications in or across all of the following areas: Networking, Communications, High Performance Computing, DSP, and Test Equipment sectors
• Expertise in high speed SerDes, as well as in high-speed communications I/O protocols: 10/40/100/400 Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express and GDDR6/DDR4/5 memory interfaces