About Altera
At Altera™, our independence as the world’s largest pure‑play FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of industry‑leading FPGA expertise, our singular mission is to deliver the programmable technologies that help customers differentiate, innovate, and scale across rapidly evolving markets like AI, cloud, networking, and edge. As an independent company, we move faster, invest deeper, and partner more closely—empowering our teams to drive breakthrough innovation and shape the future of the FPGA industry.
About the Role
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 - elicting, 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.
Salary Range
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.
$166,900 - $235,000 USD
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Qualifications:Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree and 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, etc.
In-Depth understanding of dependencies and interactions of the above with underlying IT services and tools - i.e. Network, Compute, Security, Data Center, Cloud, etc.
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.
Weekly status, KPI dashboards, and executive readouts.
Maintain a prioritized backlog and roadmap.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree
- 9+ years hands-on experience with software and hardware engineering development environments
- Experience with SCM tools (Perforce, GitHub)
- Experience with Jira
- Experience with EDA tools
- Experience with complex build and test environments
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- In-depth understanding of interactions between engineering tools and IT services (Network, Compute, Security, Data Center, Cloud)
- Ability to draft high-level and component-level designs (network, compute, storage, security, data)
- Ability to validate capacity, resilience (RTO/RPO), and cost impacts with IT owners
- Produce diagrams and decision records
- Track dependencies, risks, and changes and chair working sessions
- Provide weekly status, KPI dashboards, and executive readouts
- Maintain a prioritized backlog and roadmap
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests retirement programs are robust, with offerings such as a 401(k) and a pension. This breadth supports long-term financial security.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests time-off policies are generous, including PTO, paid sick days, and paid holidays. Wellness initiatives like gym memberships further support balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Feedback suggests parental leave is generous. Family-building support, including fertility benefits and adoption reimbursement, is highlighted as part of the package.
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What We Do
Altera: Accelerating Innovators Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.
