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Altera · 1 month ago

AI Engineer - FPGA Design Tools

positionSan Jose, California, United States
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityEntry, Mid Level
date2+ years exp

Altera is a company focused on advanced FPGA software and tools, and they are seeking an AI Engineer to join their team. The role involves building next-generation AI Copilot tools for the design toolchain, requiring hands-on experience with large language models to enhance electronic design automation processes.

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Responsibilities

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, validates, and/or debugs software to enable Altera product features to enable or utilize Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning and deep learning
Understands internal and external partner software and develops software across the stack (spanning firmware, drivers, OS, middleware, frameworks, algorithms, and applications) as required to enable and optimize specific AI features, capabilities, solutions, reference platforms, or Altera products
May include the development of reference AI software and improving or enabling customer designs to obtain the greatest value of Altera AI products, the development and/or optimization of workloads for AI benchmarks, and workloads for simulation

Qualification

LLM applications developmentPython programmingFPGA design flowsModern LLM toolingCloud services experienceTypeScript/JavaScriptAI assistant integrationDataset creation for LLMs

Required

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or a Bachelor's Degree with 2+ years of experience
Demonstrated, hands-on experience building LLM-based applications end-to-end (backend + orchestration)
Demonstrated, hands-on experience implementing RAG (vector stores, embeddings, retrieval strategies, evaluation)
Demonstrated, hands-on experience creating and curating datasets for LLMs (prompt/response pairs, feedback data)
Strong programming skills in one or more of: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar
Familiarity with modern LLM tooling (e.g., LangChain, Llamaindex, custom orchestration, or in-house frameworks)

Preferred

Understanding of FPGA or ASIC design flows (Design Entry, synthesis, P&R, timing analysis, verification, constraints, debug)
Familiarity with using tools like Quartus, Vivado, or similar
Experience integrating AI assistants into developer or engineer workflows (IDEs, CLIs, GUIs, dashboards)
Experience working with cloud services, vector databases, or telemetry/logging pipelines

Company

Altera

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Altera provides programmable logic devices and design software for various applications. It is a sub-organization of Intel.
dateFounded in 1983
location
San Jose, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
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https://www.altera.com

H1B Sponsorship

Altera has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (67)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
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2025-04-14Acquired
1988-03-31IPO

Leadership Team

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Raghib Hussain
Chief Executive Officer
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