Become a member of our world-class software research and development team! Altera® develops innovative programmable logic technologies that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from the cloud to the 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 for many customers worldwide.
You will be architecting and developing leading-edge software innovations for Quartus, the tool that optimizes our FPGA devices, within a research-oriented team. Quartus is used by all FPGA acceleration technologies (including High Level Synthesis, FPGA AI Suite, DSP Builder, etc.). The Quartus Router and Retimer optimization engines are key to unlocking high performance, area and power efficiency for our customer's design applications.
As part of the Quartus Router and Retimer team, your role will include:
Leading research & development efforts to explore novel optimization algorithms for our FPGA CAD software tools, including global and detailed routing as well as state of the art retiming for our Hyperflex routing architecture
Developing and optimizing the software to drive performance improvements by leveraging innovative FPGA hardware features
Owning various modules of the Routing and Retiming engine from device modeling to timing closure to runtime
Ideal candidates exhibit the following behavioral traits:
Intellectual curiosity and a passion for exploring new technology
Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and attention to detail
Great communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills
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.
$200.4- $290.1 USD
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Minimum Requirements:
Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
MS + 15 years of industry software experience, or PhD + 10 years of industry software experience
Desired/Preferred Skills:
Significant experience coding & hands-on development of high performance multi-core software systems
Extensive experience as an architect/technical lead for developing EDA/CAD routing algorithms for FPGAs
Proven leadership skills for collaborative cross functional projects
Experience with Altera® Quartus or AMD Vivado software
Experience with graph theory and network based optimizations including pathfinding and combinatorial optimizations
Experience with applying machine learning techniques to EDA software
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