# FPGA Development Tools Engineer

Job Details: Job Description: As an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Software Engineer within Altera you will be working on one of the most fascinating technology used in big data centers - The Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). You will research, design, develop, and optimize software tools that enable the use of FPGAs. Our engineers develop and optimize compilers, flows, models, tools, and runtimes that are closely coupled to FPGA silicon and IP. You will be learning about FPGAs and hardware logic design in your day to day job activities and utilize your software skill set to design, develop and optimize software abstractions and frameworks for acceleration with the FPGA for domains such as deep learning, DSP algorithms, or data analytics. You will have many opportunities to respond to customer/client requests or events as they occur. In this role you will be developing the software for Quartus tool that programs the next generation of FPGA devices. Your scope of responsibilities will include but are not limited to: Developing high quality C/C++ software code for enabling placement and mapping of peripheral components in FPGAs. Owning, developing and enhancing tools that a

- **Id**: 3998839
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altera-fpga-development-tools-engineer-9>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T02:37:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3553
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, EDA Software

## 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**: 88
- **Open postings**: 17
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.412
- **Repost share**: 0.118
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 53
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: yes
- **Unix** — Optional: yes
- **Verilog** — Optional: yes
- **VHDL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T02:37:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:24:41Z

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