Sr Staff Software Development Engineer

Lattice Semiconductor • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

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.
The role will also have significant responsibility in enabling next‑generation FPGA architectures, ensuring synthesis solutions scale effectively and remain competitive as Lattice platforms evolve.

Requirements

• Expert‑level proficiency in C++, with extensive experience designing, implementing, and optimizing large‑scale, performance‑critical software systems
• Experience leveraging GenAI‑based tools to improve developer productivity, accelerate debugging, enhance code quality, or support algorithm exploration and optimization
• Ability to apply modern software engineering practices while working in a highly optimized, systems‑level codebase

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, and optimization of FPGA synthesis engines across multiple Lattice FPGA product families
• Collaborate closely with other synthesis developers to define architecture, algorithms, and long‑term technical direction
• Drive quality‑of‑results (QoR) improvements, including performance, area, and compile time
• Lead the development and enablement of new synthesis features and capabilities
• Maintain, enhance, and modernize existing synthesis software to ensure robustness, scalability, and long‑term maintainability
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex synthesis issues, including customer‑reported problems
• Influence engineering best practices, code quality, and design standards within the synthesis team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed