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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.

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Python
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LlamaIndex
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Amazon Redshift
Google BigQuery
Azure
AWS
GCP
LLM
Claude
VLM
Hardware
Verilog
SystemVerilog
VHDL
C
SystemC
TCL Scripting
UVM
Formal Verification
Xilinx Vivado
Cadence Xcelium
Synopsys PrimeTime
Cadence Allegro
Cadence Sigrity
Cadence Virtuoso
Synopsys Fusion Compiler
Siemens ModelSim
Ansys HFSS
Keysight ADS
Synopsys HSPICE
Synopsys VCS
Tessent
OrCAD
HyperLynx
Ansys RedHawk
U-Boot
Cadence Tempus
Intel HLS Compiler
Ansys SIwave
Synplify Pro
Synopsys SpyGlass
Cadence Innovus
Siemens QuestaSim
Cadence Voltus
Siemens Calibre
Ansys Totem
Synopsys Design Compiler
Synopsys Verdi
Synopsys IC Compiler II
AI/ML
Python
C++
SQL
MATLAB
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
GitHub
Microsoft Fabric
Databricks
GitHub Actions
pySpark
Azure DevOps
Delta Lake
Spark
GCP
RTOS
Amazon Redshift
Google BigQuery
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Simulink
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Jenkins
LangChain
LlamaIndex
PyTorch
Quantization
Edge AI
PyTorch C++
LLVM
CloudFormation
Grafana
Prometheus
Configuration Management
Hyper-V
Nagios
Windows Server
Zabbix
Datadog
JFrog Artifactory
New Relic
Platform Engineering
Shift-Left
Splunk
Vector
SLI/SLO/SLA
GitLab CI
Incident Management
GitLab
IAM
Claude
Cursor
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
Reinforcement Learning
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
Anomaly Detection
Prompt Engineering
VLM
CUDA Toolkit
Hugging Face
Agentforce
Model Context Protocol
TensorFlow C++
SLURM
Akamai
HPC
Amazon Neptune
Milvus
pgvector
Pinecone
Qdrant
PostgreSQL
FAISS
MySQL
AutoGen
Copilot
DeepSpeed
DVC
Evidently AI
Feast
JAX
Kubeflow
MLFlow
RLHF
Synthetic Data
Transfer Learning
Vertex AI
Weights & Biases
XGBoost
Chain-of-Thought
CrewAI
Embeddings
Function Calling
Hallucination
Hybrid Search
LangGraph
LangSmith
Llama
Mistral
Ragas
OpenCL
Semantic Search
Amazon SageMaker
Feature Store
FSDP
TPU
Anthropic
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
Knowledge Graph
Recommender Systems
Semantic Search
Arize Phoenix
Security
Perl
JavaScript
Bash
PowerShell
Go
ISO 27001
Microsoft Sentinel
NIST CSF
Threat Modeling
Checkmarx
OWASP ZAP
Shift-Left Security
Snyk
SonarQube
Microsoft Defender
MITRE ATT&CK
CAPA
Defense in Depth
GDPR
Microsoft Entra ID
NIST 800-171
Zero Trust
NIST 800-53
Backend
Java
C#
Node JS
.NET
Commander.js
Rest API
GraphQL
Django
FastAPI
Flask
Other
Apex
TypeScript
Power BI
ETL/ELT
Jira
Confluence
React.js
ROS2
Sensor Fusion
Lightning Web Components
Motion Planning
ROS
Salesforce
Microsoft Project
Smartsheet
Copado
Gearset
Angular
Vue.js
A/B Testing
Stack modernity Cutting-edge AI adopter
81/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Python 80 jobs Required
$237k +32% vs market
Verilog 50 jobs Required
$216k +9% vs market
SystemVerilog 47 jobs Required
$216k -2% vs market
Perl 35 jobs Required
$204k +8% vs market
C++ 30 jobs Required
$216k +8% vs market
VHDL 26 jobs Required
$216k +20% vs market
UVM 26 jobs Required
$215k -2% vs market
Azure 16 jobs Required
$242k +45% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
17%
CI/CD
13%
JavaScript
11%
C++
11%
SQL
10%
AWS
10%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
IAM Aug 2026
GitLab Aug 2026
Model Context Protocol Aug 2026
Agentforce Aug 2026
Microsoft Fabric Aug 2026
ETL/ELT Aug 2026
Arize Phoenix Aug 2026
GitHub Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$216k
Typical range
$110k – $335k
Open positions
45
44 Jobs
Junior 2.3%
Middle 11.4%
Senior 43.2%
Staff 20.5%
Principal 4.5%
Architect 18.2%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $110k $110k
Middle 5 $154k $139k – $193k
Senior 19 $216k $154k – $335k
Staff 9 $271k $184k – $299k
Principal 2 $285k $270k – $299k
Architect 8 $293k $231k – $303k
Highest paying role Sr. Director, Boards, Packages, Reliability $335k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
152
12 opened / 52 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
13 days
faster than 60% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~13 hours
09/01/2026
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
56%
Backend
9%
DevOps
8%
Product
7%
AI/ML
6%
Data Science
3%
Actively hiring for Hardware (+23 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: New Delhi Aug 2026
New location: Israel Aug 2026
Added Ansys Totem to stack Aug 2026
Added Vue.js to stack Aug 2026
Added MySQL to stack Aug 2026
Added Flask to stack Aug 2026
Added FastAPI to stack Aug 2026
Added Django to stack Aug 2026
Added Angular to stack Aug 2026
Added Smartsheet to stack Aug 2026
Added Microsoft Project to stack Aug 2026
New location: Iași Aug 2026

Jobs

FPGA Post Silicon Validation Engineer - Security

Verified live · 1 day ago 1 day ago
$31k – $75k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
Python
Verilog
Threat Modeling
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Oracle Fusion ERP Order To Cash Business Analyst

Verified live · 1 day ago 1 day ago
$25k – $58k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
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FPGA Silicon Validation Engineer

Verified live · 1 day ago 2 days ago
$106k – $154k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
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$96k – $139k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • United States
Java
Python
SystemVerilog
Verilog
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Staff Application Engineer

Verified live · 1 day ago 5 days ago
$44k – $90k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
C++
MATLAB
Python
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$187k – $270k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
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Ethernet IP Design Application Engineer

Verified live · 1 day ago 6 days ago
$30k – $72k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
C++
Perl
Python
Verilog
VHDL
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Senior / Principal GRC Analyst

Verified live · 1 day ago 6 days ago
$33k – $82k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • Bengaluru
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
IAM
Cybersecurity
Defense in Depth
GDPR
ISO 27001
Microsoft Entra ID
NIST 800-171
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FPGA Design Verification Engineer

Verified live · 1 day ago 6 days ago
In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • India
Perl
Python
SystemVerilog
Verilog
VHDL
Xilinx Vivado
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FPGA Customer Quality Engineer

Verified live · 1 day ago 6 days ago
In office • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Shanghai
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Sr. Director, Boards, Packages, Reliability

Verified live · 1 day ago 6 days ago
$232k – $335k per year • In office • Full-Time • 15+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Ansys SIwave
Cadence Sigrity
HyperLynx
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Transceivers & Protocol IP Application Engineer

Verified live · 1 day ago 7 days ago
$149k – $216k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
C++
Python
SystemVerilog
Verilog
VHDL
Siemens ModelSim
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