Engineering/IT Specialist

Altera • San Jose, CA

90d • $159,700 - $231,200

About The Position

Join Altera as an Engineering/IT Specialist! The Engineering/IT specialist is a dedicated specialist who translates complex engineering needs into actionable IT work, accelerates delivery, and resolves cross-domain issues. Objectives: Act as a primary interface between IT, Engineering and manufacturing - eliciting, translating and negotiating business requirements into clear, actionable and scalable IT infrastructure roadmaps and designs. Convert requests into clear specs, user stories, and RFCs (functional & non-functional). Define acceptance, Test criteria and success metrics per request.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 9+ years of hands-on experience and skills working with SW & HW engineering development environments including SCM tools, Perforce, GitHub, Jira, EDA tools, complex build and test environments, ci/cd pipelines.
• In-depth understanding of dependencies and interactions of the above with underlying IT services and tools - i.e. Network, Compute, Security, Data Center, Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Act as a primary interface between IT, Engineering and manufacturing.
• Elicit, translate and negotiate business requirements into clear, actionable and scalable IT infrastructure roadmaps and designs.
• Convert requests into clear specs, user stories, and RFCs (functional & non-functional).
• Define acceptance, Test criteria and success metrics per request.
• Draft high-level and component-level designs (network, compute, storage, security, data).
• Validate capacity, resilience (RTO/RPO), and cost impacts with IT owners.
• Help produce diagrams and decision records.
• Track dependencies, risks, and changes; chair working sessions.
• Provide weekly status, KPI dashboards, and executive readouts.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog and roadmap.

Benefits

• Incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree