FPGA System Design Engineer
$118K - $172K/yr
Altera is seeking a highly motivated FPGA System Design Engineer to join our Aerospace, Defense, and Government (ADG) solutions team. In this role, you will work directly with strategic customers to ...

$118K - $172K/yr
Altera is seeking a highly motivated FPGA System Design Engineer to join our Aerospace, Defense, and Government (ADG) solutions team. In this role, you will work directly with strategic customers to ...
$118K - $172K/yr
Altera is seeking a highly motivated FPGA System Design Engineer to join our Aerospace, Defense, and Government (ADG) solutions team. In this role, you will work directly with strategic customers to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$118K - $172K/yr
Altera is seeking a highly motivated FPGA System Design Engineer to join our Aerospace, Defense, and Government (ADG) solutions team. In this role, you will work directly with strategic customers to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$118K - $172K/yr
Altera is seeking a highly motivated FPGA System Design Engineer to join our Aerospace, Defense, and Government (ADG) solutions team. In this role, you will work directly with strategic customers to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$152K - $195K/yr
About Altera At Altera, our independence as the world's largest pureplay FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$152K - $195K/yr
About Altera At Altera, our independence as the world's largest pureplay FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of ...
$118K - $210K/yr
About Altera At Altera, our independence as the world's largest pureplay FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of ...
$118K - $210K/yr
About Altera At Altera, our independence as the world's largest pureplay FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$118.90 - $210/hr
About Altera**At AlteraTM, our independence as the world's largest pure‐play FPGA solutions ... FPGA Customer Quality Engineer (CQE)** to drive FPGA product quality, strengthening the end ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$118.90 - $210/hr
About Altera**At AlteraTM, our independence as the world's largest pure‐play FPGA solutions ... FPGA Customer Quality Engineer (CQE)** to drive FPGA product quality, strengthening the end ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$187 - $270.70/hr
Altera is a leader in FPGA innovation, delivering programmable solutions that power AI, cloud computing, networking, and edge applications. Our compiler and tools teams are at the core of enabling ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$187 - $270.70/hr
Altera is a leader in FPGA innovation, delivering programmable solutions that power AI, cloud computing, networking, and edge applications. Our compiler and tools teams are at the core of enabling ...
CA$129.10 - CA$187/hr
About Altera At Altera, our independence as the world's largest pureplay FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of ...
CA$129.10 - CA$187/hr
About Altera At Altera, our independence as the world's largest pureplay FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$118K - $210K/yr
About Altera At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure-play FPGA solutions ... About the Role We are seeking a highly experienced and capable FPGA Customer Quality Engineer (CQE ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$118K - $210K/yr
About Altera At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure-play FPGA solutions ... About the Role We are seeking a highly experienced and capable FPGA Customer Quality Engineer (CQE ...
Toronto, ON · On-site
CA$144K/yr
Altera is a leader in FPGA innovation, delivering programmable solutions that power AI, cloud computing, networking, and edge applications. Our compiler and tools teams are at the core of enabling ...
Toronto, ON · On-site
CA$144K/yr
Altera is a leader in FPGA innovation, delivering programmable solutions that power AI, cloud computing, networking, and edge applications. Our compiler and tools teams are at the core of enabling ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$149K - $215K/yr
About Altera At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure-play FPGA solutions ... Altera is seeking a FPGA Compiler Engineer (Placer) to join our Compiler team in San Jose, CA. This ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$149K - $215K/yr
About Altera At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure-play FPGA solutions ... Altera is seeking a FPGA Compiler Engineer (Placer) to join our Compiler team in San Jose, CA. This ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$152K - $195K/yr
Altera is a leader in FPGA innovation, delivering programmable solutions that power AI, cloud computing, networking, and edge applications. Our compiler and tools teams are at the core of enabling ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$152K - $195K/yr
Altera is a leader in FPGA innovation, delivering programmable solutions that power AI, cloud computing, networking, and edge applications. Our compiler and tools teams are at the core of enabling ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$200K - $286K/yr
About Altera Altera is a leading innovator in FPGA technology, delivering programmable solutions that power the world's data-centric applications-from cloud and communications infrastructure to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$200K - $286K/yr
About Altera Altera is a leading innovator in FPGA technology, delivering programmable solutions that power the world's data-centric applications-from cloud and communications infrastructure to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$149 - $215/hr
About Altera At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure‑play FPGA solutions ... About the Role Join Altera as a Senior FPGA Silicon Design Engineer focused on the design and ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$149 - $215/hr
About Altera At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure‑play FPGA solutions ... About the Role Join Altera as a Senior FPGA Silicon Design Engineer focused on the design and ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$187K - $270K/yr
Altera is a leader in FPGA innovation, delivering programmable solutions that power AI, cloud computing, networking, and edge applications. Our compiler and tools teams are at the core of enabling ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$187K - $270K/yr
Altera is a leader in FPGA innovation, delivering programmable solutions that power AI, cloud computing, networking, and edge applications. Our compiler and tools teams are at the core of enabling ...
$149 - $215/hr
About Altera At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure‑play FPGA solutions ... About the Role Join Altera as a Senior FPGA Silicon Design Engineer focused on the design and ...
$149 - $215/hr
About Altera At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure‑play FPGA solutions ... About the Role Join Altera as a Senior FPGA Silicon Design Engineer focused on the design and ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$200K - $286K/yr
About Altera Altera is a leading innovator in FPGA technology, delivering programmable solutions that power the world's data-centric applications-from cloud and communications infrastructure to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$200K - $286K/yr
About Altera Altera is a leading innovator in FPGA technology, delivering programmable solutions that power the world's data-centric applications-from cloud and communications infrastructure to ...
Translate Altera's FPGA/IP capabilities into market relevant narratives for Sales, Engineering, Product Marketing, and Planning * Develop competitive analyses and market landscape updates on Routing ...
Translate Altera's FPGA/IP capabilities into market relevant narratives for Sales, Engineering, Product Marketing, and Planning * Develop competitive analyses and market landscape updates on Routing ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$142K - $206K/yr
As Lead DV Engineer focusing on IP Verification & Validation, you will be responsible for carrying ... the Altera FPGA IP product portfolios. The charter of IP verification & validation team is to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$142K - $206K/yr
As Lead DV Engineer focusing on IP Verification & Validation, you will be responsible for carrying ... the Altera FPGA IP product portfolios. The charter of IP verification & validation team is to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$144K - $198K/yr
This role works closely with Sales, Field Applications Engineers, and Product Planning teams to ... Represent Altera in customer briefings, industry forums, and security-focused events * Support RFIs ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$144K - $198K/yr
This role works closely with Sales, Field Applications Engineers, and Product Planning teams to ... Represent Altera in customer briefings, industry forums, and security-focused events * Support RFIs ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$142K - $206K/yr
As Lead DV Engineer focusing on IP Verification & Validation, you will be responsible for carrying ... the Altera FPGA IP product portfolios. The charter of IP verification & validation team is to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$142K - $206K/yr
As Lead DV Engineer focusing on IP Verification & Validation, you will be responsible for carrying ... the Altera FPGA IP product portfolios. The charter of IP verification & validation team is to ...

Altera is seeking a highly motivated FPGA System Design Engineer to join our Aerospace, Defense, and Government (ADG) solutions team. In this role, you will work directly with strategic customers to architect, implement, optimize, and benchmark advanced signal processing and embedded computing solutions on Altera FPGA platforms.
You will collaborate with industry experts, customer engineering teams, and internal FPGA tool development organizations to accelerate customer success, demonstrate the value of Altera technology, and influence future product and software capabilities. This position provides an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies including FPGA-based DSP, embedded systems, AI inference, high-speed data converters, and advanced RF signal processing applications.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and implement FPGA-based solutions using RTL, DSP Builder, and embedded processor technologies for defense and aerospace applications.
Partner directly with strategic customers to deploy and optimize DSP, communications, AI, and signal processing algorithms on Altera FPGA devices.
Develop benchmarks, proof-of-concept demonstrations, reference designs, and complete system solutions that showcase FPGA performance and value.
Collaborate closely with FPGA software and tools teams to identify customer needs, drive tool enhancements, and influence future product features.
Analyze system-level performance and optimize FPGA implementations for throughput, latency, power, and resource utilization.
Support customer design activities including architecture reviews, debugging, performance tuning, and technical enablement.
Contribute technical collateral including design documentation, application notes, training materials, and best-practice guides.
The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
$118.9K - $172.2K USD
We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
3+ years of experience in FPGA design and algorithm implementation.
2+ years of software development experience using C/C++.
1+ year of FPGA development experience using Verilog or VHDL.
Strong understanding of digital logic design and FPGA development methodologies.
Experience debugging and validating complex hardware/software systems.
Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Security Clearance Requirement
This position may involve work on U.S. Government contracts that require access to controlled or classified information. Accordingly, all applicants must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance as a condition of employment. Failure to obtain or maintain the required security clearance may result in the withdrawal of an employment offer or termination of employment, consistent with applicable law.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
Hands-on experience with:
MATLAB and Simulink
C/C++ and CUDA
Verilog and/or VHDL FPGA design
Quartus Prime and ModelSim/Questa simulation tools
Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
Background in one or more of the following:
Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Signal and Image Processing
Wireless and Communication Systems
Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
High-speed ADC/DAC architectures
RF and Software Defined Radio (SDR) systems
Experience with FPGA SoCs, embedded processors, and heterogeneous computing architectures.
Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and work independently in a fast-paced environment.
Strong collaboration, presentation, and customer-facing communication skills.
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