# AI Lead Architect - Silicon Design Execution

Job Details: Job Description: About Altera Altera designs and delivers FPGA and adaptive computing solutions that help customers build differentiated, intelligent systems. This role is part of Altera's effort to modernize and accelerate its hardware design organization through the strategic application of AI. Mission Lead the AI transformation of hardware design across the organization. Role Summary Altera is seeking an AI Lead in HW Engineering to define and drive the company's AI strategy for chip design and to lead its deployment into design, verification, and implementation workflows. This is a senior, individual-contributor role intended for an engineer with deep hardware/EDA credibility who can act as a change agent - identifying where AI and machine learning can meaningfully accelerate and improve hardware development, building the case for adoption, and partnering with engineering teams across the organization to make it happen. The role carries no direct reports; impact comes through technical leadership, influence, and cross-team partnership rather than management authority. Key Responsibilities Define AI strategy: Develop and own a coherent strategy for how AI/ML is appl

- **Id**: 1080908
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altera-ai-lead-architect-silicon-design-execution>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-20T21:56:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:39:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 51
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7746
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips

## Company

- **Id**: 5328
- **Name**: Altera
- **Domain**: altera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/altera>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0.071
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 53
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 206400
- **Max**: 303250
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 303250

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 51

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-20T21:56:02Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 71; Filings 12m: 71

## Liveness

- **Score**: 44
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.589
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 51
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:late, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 303250
- **Is top pay**: yes

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