About the Role
Altera is seeking a Technical Program Manager to coordinate and drive the engineering execution behind next-generation FPGA device rollouts. In this highly cross-functional role, you will orchestrate complex development efforts spanning silicon, IP, software, firmware, validation, and manufacturing readiness, ensuring alignment across geographically distributed teams in North America and Asia.
As a member of Altera’s Execution Alignment Team, you will implement best-in-class program management practices, drive schedule and risk transparency, and ensure successful delivery of industry-leading FPGA products.
Responsibilities
Lead and manage large, complex technical programs supporting FPGA device development from definition through production rollout.
Coordinate execution across multiple engineering disciplines including silicon design, IP, software, firmware, validation, and system enablement.
Develop and maintain detailed program plans, schedules, milestones, and dependency tracking for multi-threaded development efforts.
Drive alignment across global teams in North America and Asia, ensuring clear ownership, accountability, and communication.
Identify program risks, critical path issues, and resource constraints; proactively develop and execute mitigation plans.
Partner closely with engineering, product management, quality, and operations teams to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.
Implement and continuously improve best-in-class project and program management processes, tools, and reporting mechanisms.
Facilitate executive-level communication by providing clear status updates, issue escalation, and data-driven decision support.
Support silicon bring-up, validation, sampling, and production readiness milestones by ensuring cross-functional execution alignment.
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.
$113,700 - $164,700 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.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Program Management, or Engineering Program Leadership roles.
3+ years of technical experience in one of the following areas: Transceivers, Embedded Systems (particularly ARM), Config and Security, PCIe, Ethernet or ASIC Design / DV
2+ years of experience managing complex, cross-functional hardware and software development programs.
5+ years of experience leading programs that integrate silicon, hardware, software, firmware, IP, and validation teams.
3+ years of experience managing programs across multiple organizations and geographically distributed international teams.
Experience with full product development lifecycle, including definition, development, verification, sampling, and production rollout.
Experience building detailed execution plans, manage dependencies, and drive teams to meet aggressive schedules.
Experience with project and program management tools used for schedule tracking, risk management, and reporting.
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of experience working directly on FPGA, ASIC, or silicon-based product development programs.
Hands-on technical background in silicon design, validation, or software/firmware engineering.
Experience supporting silicon bring-up, validation, or manufacturing readiness phases.
Familiarity with Agile, hybrid Agile/Waterfall, or scaled execution frameworks in hardware-centric environments.
Experience presenting program status and execution metrics to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related discipline
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or Engineering Program Leadership roles
- 3+ years of technical experience in Transceivers, Embedded Systems, or ASIC Design
- 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional hardware and software development programs
- 5+ years of experience leading programs that integrate silicon, hardware, and software
- 3+ years of experience managing programs across multiple organizations
- Experience with full product development lifecycle
- Experience with project and program management tools
- 5+ years of experience working on FPGA or ASIC product development
- Hands-on technical background in silicon design or software engineering
- Experience with Agile or hybrid development frameworks
- Experience presenting program status to senior leadership
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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.
