{"id":1204581,"url":"https://alion.io/job/altera-physical-design-engineer-8","title":"Physical Design Engineer","company":{"id":5328,"name":"Altera","domain":"altera.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/altera","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":20,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":85,"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Jose, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":105000,"max":120000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":120000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Cadence Innovus","optional":false},{"name":"Perl","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Synopsys Fusion Compiler","optional":false},{"name":"Synopsys PrimeTime","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":true},{"name":"Unix","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T22:57:19Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T01:24:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Job Details:\nJob Description:\nAbout Altera\nAt Altera™, our independence as the world’s largest pure-play FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of industry-leading FPGA expertise, our singular mission is to deliver the programmable technologies that help customers differentiate, innovate, and scale across rapidly evolving markets like AI, cloud, networking, and edge. As an independent company, we move faster, invest deeper, and partner more closely-empowering our teams to drive breakthrough innovation and shape the future of the FPGA industry.\nAbout the Role\nAltera is looking for aPhysical Design Engineer to join our Silicon Engineering organization.\nIn this role, you will contribute to the physical implementation of next-generation FPGA products, partnering closely with architecture, RTL design, DFT, timing, power, and verification teams to help deliver high-quality silicon. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer or recent graduate with a Master’s degree who is looking to grow technical depth in physical design and backend implementation in a fast-paced semiconductor environment.\nAs a Physical Design Engineer, you will support block-level and/or top-level physical design implementation activities across FPGA product development. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to help optimize designs for timing, power, area, and manufacturability while contributing to the successful delivery of high-quality silicon.\nResponsibilities\nOther responsibilities of the Physical Design Engineer include but are not limited to:\nSupport block-level and/or top-level physical design implementation for FPGA and ASIC-style designs, including floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and physical verification.\n\nWork with senior physical design engineers to optimize designs for timing, power, area, congestion, and routability.\n\nParticipate in implementation tasks across the physical design flow, including netlist handoff, constraints setup, synthesis/physical design handoff, and signoff readiness.\n\nRun and analyze timing, power, congestion, and design rule reports to identify issues and support closure activities.\n\nCollaborate with RTL, design, DFT, CAD, and verification teams to resolve design and flow issues impacting physical implementation.\n\nSupport static timing analysis (STA), timing closure, and engineering change order (ECO) implementation activities.\n\nHelp debug physical design issues related to setup/hold violations, clocking, congestion, IR drop, or design rule violations.\n\nAssist with physical verification tasks including DRC/LVS checks and design signoff preparation.\n\nDevelop and maintain scripts and automation to improve physical design productivity and flow efficiency.\n\nParticipate in silicon bring-up support and post-silicon debug activities as needed in partnership with cross-functional teams.\n\nSalary Range\nThe pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.\n$105,000 - $120,000 USD\nWe use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.\nQualifications:\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field with 2+ years of industry experience in physical design, ASIC/SoC backend implementation, or a related semiconductor engineering role, including experience in the following:\nPhysical design fundamentals including floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, timing closure, and physical verification.\n\nExperience with industry-standard physical design and signoff tools such asCadence Innovus,Synopsys ICC2,PrimeTime, Fusion Compiler, or similar tools.\n\nUnderstanding of static timing analysis (STA), timing constraints, setup/hold concepts, and timing closure methodologies.\n\nExperience reviewing and debugging timing, congestion, area, and power reports.\n\nFamiliarity with physical verification concepts including DRC/LVS and signoff quality checks.\n\nExposure to scripting or automation usingTcl, Python, Perl, or similar languages.\n\nKnowledge of semiconductor design flows, from RTL handoff through physical implementation and signoff.\n\nStrong understanding of digital design fundamentals and CMOS/VLSI concepts.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.\n\nExperience with advanced-node physical design methodologies and low-power implementation concepts.\n\nExposure to FPGA, SoC, or high-performance semiconductor product development.\n\nFamiliarity with power planning, IR drop analysis, signal integrity, electromigration (EM) analysis, or physical signoff flows.\n\nExperience working in Linux/Unix-based development environments.\n\nStrong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.\n\nJob Type:\nRegularShift:\nShift 1 (United States of America)Primary Location:\nSan Jose, California, United StatesAdditional Locations:\nPosting Statement:\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5817,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Processors, MCUs & AI Chips"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T22:57:19Z"}],"liveness":{"score":40,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.542,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":85,"reasons":["conf:3","evergreen","velocity","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":120000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/altera-physical-design-engineer-8","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/altera-physical-design-engineer-8.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T03:20:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3568,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1432,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}