Senior/Staff SW Development Engineer
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
Penang, MalaysiaFirmwareFPGAPosted Aug 28, 2026via workday
Lattice Overview
There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.
Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.
Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced Senior/Staff SW Development Engineer to join our team to build and modernize software for FPGA flows and HW-SW co-design tools.
If you have a strong background in C/C++ and enjoy solving complex system-level challenges — transforming legacy code into modular, robust, and future-proof systems — we’d love to connect.
What we are looking for:
• 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐂 / 𝐂++ 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞: Strong foundation in C/C++ with the ability to navigate, debug, and modernize large, complex codebases into Modern C++.
• 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 & 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Proven experience in refactoring legacy systems, improving performance, modularity, memory footprint, and maintainability.
• 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬: Track record of driving robust automated testing, CI/CD, static analysis, and code quality standards.
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: Ability to mentor engineers, guide design decisions, and solve tough debugging/performance bottlenecks.
𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 (𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲) 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬: Experience in any of: FPGA tools or EDA software development, embedded systems, device programming, or HW-SW modeling.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤: We are actively integrating GenAI-augmented engineering workflows into our development lifecycle to accelerate legacy code analysis, refactoring, debugging, and test automation.
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Additional Information:
This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:
Malaysia
Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.
Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce, some 1,000 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com. You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.