Altera

altera.com

altera.com • San Jose

San Jose

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Overview

Altera is a American semiconductor company that specializes in manufacturing programmable logic devices, primary field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), System-on-a-Chip (SoC) FPGAs, and related design software. Originally founded in 1983, the company pioneered reconfigurable hardware before being acquired by Intel in 2015 and later re-established as an independent, standalone enterprise. Its high-performance hardware and intellectual property cores are widely used across data centers, telecommunications, automotive systems, defense, and edge AI applications.

Technologies

Tech DNA

Python

Verilog

Perl

UVM

LangChain

PyTorch

Delta Lake

Amazon Neptune

Milvus

Azure

AWS

GCP

LLM

Claude

Llama

Hardware

Verilog

SystemVerilog

VHDL

SystemC

TCL Scripting

UVM

Formal Verification

Synopsys PrimeTime

Cadence Allegro

Cadence Tempus

Synopsys Fusion Compiler

Intel HLS Compiler

Cadence Xcelium

Siemens ModelSim

OrCAD

Ansys HFSS

Cadence Sigrity

Keysight ADS

Synopsys HSPICE

U-Boot

Cadence Virtuoso

Synopsys Design Compiler

Xilinx Vivado

Ansys SIwave

HyperLynx

Ansys RedHawk

Synopsys Verdi

Synopsys VCS

Synplify Pro

Tessent

Synopsys SpyGlass

AI/ML

Python

C++

SQL

MATLAB

Azure

CI/CD

Git

AWS

GCP

RTOS

AI Agents

LLM

RAG

Docker

Kubernetes

Delta Lake

LangChain

PyTorch

Quantization

Fine-tuning

pySpark

PyTorch C++

LLVM

Simulink

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

CloudFormation

Grafana

Prometheus

SLURM

Terraform

Rest API

SLI/SLO/SLA

Databricks

Amazon Neptune

Spark

Claude

Cursor

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

Copilot

DeepSpeed

DVC

Evidently AI

Feast

JAX

Knowledge Distillation

Kubeflow

MLFlow

Reinforcement Learning

RLHF

Scikit-learn

Synthetic Data

TensorFlow

Transfer Learning

Vertex AI

Weights & Biases

XGBoost

Anomaly Detection

Prompt Engineering

Embeddings

Semantic Search

CUDA Toolkit

TensorFlow C++

Configuration Management

Hyper-V

Nagios

Windows Server

Zabbix

Akamai

Datadog

Jenkins

JFrog Artifactory

New Relic

Platform Engineering

Shift-Left

Splunk

Vector

Milvus

pgvector

Pinecone

Qdrant

PostgreSQL

FAISS

Chain-of-Thought

CrewAI

Function Calling

Hallucination

Hybrid Search

LangGraph

LangSmith

Llama

Mistral

Ragas

VLM

OpenCL

Security

Perl

JavaScript

Bash

PowerShell

Zero Trust

ISO 27001

Microsoft Sentinel

NIST CSF

Microsoft Defender

MITRE ATT&CK

NIST 800-53

Threat Modeling

Checkmarx

OWASP ZAP

Shift-Left Security

Snyk

SonarQube

Backend

Apex

Java

Node JS

Lightning Web Components

Commander.js

.NET

Copado

Gearset

Other

TypeScript

Power BI

Salesforce

Jira

React.js

GraphQL

Motion Planning

ROS

ROS2

Sensor Fusion

Stack modernity Cutting-edge AI adopter

82/100

How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.

In-demand technologies

Python 23 jobs Required

$184k +20% vs market

Verilog 15 jobs Required

$193k +1% vs market

Perl 14 jobs Required

$189k Median

SystemVerilog 10 jobs Required

$272k +23% vs market

VHDL 10 jobs Required

$193k +156% vs market

C++ 8 jobs Required

$216k +18% vs market

UVM 5 jobs Required

$299k +30% vs market

CI/CD 4 jobs Required

$299k +177% vs market

Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.

Industry adoption

Python

23%

CI/CD

16%

JavaScript

15%

C++

15%

SQL

13%

Git

13%

Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.

Stack changes

Synopsys SpyGlass Aug 2026

TCL Scripting Aug 2026

Simulink Aug 2026

CUDA Toolkit Aug 2026

SLI/SLO/SLA Aug 2026

MITRE ATT&CK Aug 2026

Microsoft Defender Aug 2026

Commander.js Aug 2026

Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.

Similar stack

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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs

Median

$213k

Typical range

$110k – $303k

Open positions

18 Jobs

Junior 5.6%

Middle 27.8%

Senior 27.8%

Staff 5.6%

Principal 11.1%

Architect 22.2%

Level	Jobs	Median	Typical range
Junior	1	$110k	$110k
Middle	5	$172k	$139k – $193k
Senior	5	$216k	$195k – $216k
Staff	1	$184k	$184k
Principal	2	$255k	$210k – $299k
Architect	4	$301k	$245k – $303k

Highest paying role Sr Salesforce Solution Architect $303k

Normalized to USD per year

Jobs

AI Engineer – Cloud Software & AI Platforms - Contract

2 days ago

$119k – $172k per year • In office • Contractor • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose

Python

TypeScript

Embeddings

Fine-tuning

LLM

Prompt Engineering

RAG

Semantic Search

DevOps

AWS

Azure

Docker

GCP

Kubernetes

Rest API

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Custom Circuit Design Engineer

3 days ago

In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Malaysia

Perl

Python

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Graduate Engineer – FPGA HPS USB Post-Silicon Validation

3 days ago

In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Malaysia

C++

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FPGA Post Silicon Validation Engineer - HPS USB

3 days ago

In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Malaysia

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Software Product Manager

4 days ago

$149k – $216k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose

C++

RTOS

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Senior FPGA Circuit Design Engineer

6 days ago

$149k – $215k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose

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IP Firmware Design Engineer

8 days ago

In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto

C++

Perl

Python

SystemVerilog

Verilog

VHDL

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Senior FPGA Design Engineer

9 days ago

In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru

Python

SystemVerilog

Verilog

Cadence Xcelium

UVM

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FPGA System Design Engineer

10 days ago

$119k – $172k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose

C++

MATLAB

Verilog

VHDL

Simulink

AI/ML

CUDA Toolkit

DevOps

RTOS

Chips/EDA

Siemens ModelSim

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Security Operations Center Lead

12 days ago

In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Malaysia

Node JS

JavaScript

Commander.js

DevOps

AWS

Azure

GCP

SLI/SLO/SLA

Cybersecurity

ISO 27001

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

MITRE ATT&CK

NIST CSF

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Software Validation Engineer

16 days ago

$133k – $193k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose

Bash

Perl

Python

Verilog

VHDL

Git

Management

Jira

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BootROM & Firmware Developer

17 days ago

$149k – $216k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose

C++

RTOS

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Growth

Hiring Momentum

82/100

Scaling fast

Open positions

13 opened / 53 closed in 30 days

Median time-to-fill

87 days

faster than 38% of the market

ATS activity

Every ~8 hours

Today

Hiring Dynamics +100%

Hiring Focus

The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.

Hardware

50% ▼

AI/ML

13% ▼

Backend

7% ▲

Frontend

7% ▼

Product

7% ▲

DevOps

Actively hiring for Hardware (+13 in 30 days)

Activity Timeline

+5 jobs in a week Aug 2026

Added Synopsys SpyGlass to stack Aug 2026

Added TCL Scripting to stack Aug 2026

+6 jobs in a week Aug 2026

Added Simulink to stack Aug 2026

Added CUDA Toolkit to stack Aug 2026

Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Aug 2026

Added MITRE ATT&CK to stack Aug 2026

Added Microsoft Defender to stack Aug 2026

Added Commander.js to stack Aug 2026

Added TensorFlow C++ to stack Aug 2026

Added RTOS to stack Aug 2026