Product Engineer Japan

Fortaegis is a fast-scaling, highly ambitious and cutting-edge semiconductor company. We are looking for a Product Engineer to act as the technical bridge between customers and engineering teams, ensuring Fortaegis products meet customer requirements, performance expectations, and market needs.

We are looking for candidates with not only an exceptional skillset, but also an exceptional mindset, willing to go above and beyond to make our outstanding team even better.

Job requirements

• Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of networking, encryption, cybersecurity, secure communications, hardware security, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Product Definition: Ability to translate customer requirements into technical specifications and engineering requirements.
• Systems Architecture: Experience designing, reviewing, or validating complex system architectures involving software, hardware, networking, or security technologies.
• Customer Interaction: Comfortable discussing technical requirements directly with customers, technical architects, and engineering teams.
• Problem Solving: Ability to identify gaps between customer expectations and product capabilities and drive resolution.
• Validation & Testing: Experience supporting product validation, performance testing, interoperability, testing, or proof-of-concept activities.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills in both customer-facing and engineering-facing environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with ASIC, FPGA, semiconductor products, or hardware security technologies.
• Knowledge of Root of Trust, HSM, PUF, PQC, secure boot, attestation, or cryptographic systems.
• Experience supporting telecom, defence, critical infrastructure, or industrial customers.
• Experience creating technical specifications, product requirements documents (PRDs), and technical whitepapers.

Job responsibilities

• Capture requirements from Japanese customers and translate them into product specifications and engineering requirements (product definition).
• Feed customer and market input into the product roadmap, and help prioritize features for the Japan market.
• Design, review, and validate system architectures across software, hardware, networking, and security.
• Support product validation, performance testing, and interoperability testing.
• Identify gaps between customer expectations and product capabilities, and drive resolution with the engineering team.
• Prepare technical specifications, PRDs, and technical whitepapers.

Additional information

The successful candidate will have the unique opportunity to participate in shaping the future of our visionary company, contributing to the development of ultra-secure and high-performance SoC designs. They will be part of a dynamic and innovative team, working in a collaborative and challenging environment at the forefront of the semiconductor technology.