FPGA Prototyping & Physical AI Intern

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: Lattice Semiconductor is looking for an FPGA Prototyping & Physical AI intern for the Robotics & Systems Engineering team in Penang. This position provides the opportunity to develop technical depth across RTL design, SoC integration and AI-on-FPGA, working with the team on prototype platforms and reference designs that feed worldwide customer engagements. Responsibilities

• Design, integrate and validate RTL for prototype FPGA systems, including soft-IP integration (PCIe root port, USB host, AXI/APB interconnect), timing closure and resource optimisation on Lattice Avant and Nexus devices using Radiant and Propel.
• Develop hardware-software co-design flows for Physical AI workloads: partition vision-language-action and robot-control pipelines between host GPU and FPGA, profile latency and power, evaluate quantisation and pruning trade-offs, and validate hardware-in-the-loop on robot platforms.
• Practice efficient debug across the full FPGA development cycle: self-checking testbenches and simulation, waveform and log analysis, board bring-up, embedded firmware (RISC-V and MCU-class) and host-side software integration.
• Automate validation and bring-up: regression suites, board-farm continuous integration, telemetry and logging tooling, and reproducible test-result reporting.
• Transform results into engineering collateral: contribute to reference designs, user guides, application notes and demo bring-up for tradeshows and customer engagements.
• Utilize AI to transform existing workflows into processes and interactions that are more meaningful and efficient.

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