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Altera · 22 hours ago

Director, EDA Cloud and HPC Architecture

Altera is a company focused on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) environments, and they are seeking a Director of EDA Cloud & HPC Architecture. This role is responsible for defining and driving the cloud, compute, and high-performance infrastructure strategy, ensuring optimal performance and resilience in EDA systems.
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Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, and scaling of high-performance compute clusters supporting EDA flows and large-scale simulation workloads, ensuring optimal performance, resilience, and throughput
Drive HPC performance modeling, workload optimization, and adoption of new compute architectures (GPU/FPGA-accelerated, heterogeneous compute)
Define roadmaps for future HPC expansion, including hybrid on-prem and cloud HPC models
Architect and implement cloud-based EDA environments enabling elastic compute, distributed workflows, and modern DevOps-driven CI/CD for design tools
Develop cloud migration strategies for critical engineering infrastructure, including compute, storage, and design environments
Establish cost-optimized multi-cloud and colocation compute strategies aligned with engineering needs
Partner with EDA tool engineering to ensure infrastructure is optimized for front-end and back-end design flows, simulation, verification, timing analysis, and ML-assisted design tools
Enable AI-accelerated EDA flows by integrating compute platforms and cloud pipelines with emerging LLM/AI-driven tool features (e.g., intelligent design copilots)
Drive architectural decisions supporting massive-scale RTL builds, compilation, synthesis, P&R, and FPGA bitstream generation
Oversee global EDA compute infrastructure operations including clusters, storage fabrics, job schedulers, and engineering data services
Define and enforce high-assurance lab and cloud security policies, including patching, software controls, and compliance frameworks
Implement monitoring, reliability engineering, and performance KPIs to ensure uninterrupted service for engineering teams
Collaborate with silicon, software, architecture, IT, and solutions teams to align infrastructure with business objectives
Drive vendor strategy and negotiate key HPC, cloud, and infrastructure partnerships
Represent Altera in internal and external technical forums as a thought leader in cloud-native EDA and HPC innovation

Qualification

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Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
12+ years in HPC, cloud architecture, or EDA infrastructure roles, with at least 5 years leading large technical teams
8+ years of deep expertise with HPC clusters, schedulers (LSF/Slurm), blades/servers, fabric networking, distributed storage, and large-scale compute optimization
10+ years of experience in EDA workflows, compute-heavy design environments, or semiconductor design infrastructure
Experience architecting production cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Proven ability to define long-term architecture roadmaps and execute complex cross-functional initiatives

Preferred

Experience with custom compute architectures
Familiarity with AI-assisted EDA, ML model training pipelines, or LLM-driven automation strategies
Prior leadership in semiconductor or EDA companies

Benefits

Incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance

Company

Altera

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Altera provides programmable logic devices and design software for various applications. It is a sub-organization of Intel.

H1B Sponsorship

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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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