FPGA Development Tools Engineer

Altera Semiconductor • San Jose, CA

30d

About The Position

About the Job Altera is one of the world's leading providers of programmable solutions. With a renewed focus on agility, software-first, and AI-driven solutions, Altera is shaping the future of computing by providing flexible technology , empowering innovators with scalable products, from high-performance to power- and cost-optimized devices for cloud, network, and edge applications. Join us in our journey to becoming the #1 FPGA provider in the world as we redefine the next era of programmable innovations! The Database, Infrastructure & Tooling (DBIT) Team plays a critical role in bringing Altera’s next-generation FPGA devices to Quartus Prime, our flagship design software. As the bridge between hardware and software, DBIT defines and implements how FPGA devices are modeled within Quartus. If you’re excited about solving complex engineering problems and working at the intersection of hardware and software, DBIT is the place for you. We are looking for a seasoned software engineer to help us shape Altera’s industry-leading FPGA design software. You will work on initiatives like lightweight yet scalable data models to represent increasingly sophisticated FPGA architectures while maintaining high-performance APIs that power Quartus’ state-of-the-art algorithms and data structures.

Requirements

• Real passion for software engineering : Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer E ngineering or related fields with 4+ years of experience; OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer E ngineering or related fields with 3+ years of experience; OR Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computer E ngineering or related fields with 1+ year s of experience.
• Excellent programming skills in C/C++ and Python.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced background on algorithms and data structures.
• Experience developing EDA tools.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Background on graph-based algorithms.
• Background on HDL design using Verilog, SystemVerilog , and/or VHDL.
• Experience developing and maintaining internal applications and APIs.

Responsibilities

• U sing C++ and Python to s pecify, implement and maintain software data models to represent FPGA devices .
• Developing high-performance APIs to streamline the access to FPGA device databases to industry-leading algorithms for synthesis, place ment, rout ing , timing analysis , power analysis, among others.
• Collaborating with multiple hardware and software teams while bringing the next-generation FPGA devices to Quartus.
• Developing tools to aid/enhance Altera’s FPGA device bring-up process es .

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level