# Physical Design Engineer

Job Details: Job Description: About Altera At 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. About the Role Altera is looking for aPhysical Design Engineer to join our Silicon Engineering organization. In 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 environm

- **Id**: 1204581
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altera-physical-design-engineer-8>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **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**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T22:57:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T11:26:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 45
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5817
- **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**: 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

## Salary

- **Min**: 105000
- **Max**: 120000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 120000

## Technologies

- **Cadence Innovus** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Synopsys Fusion Compiler** — Optional: no
- **Synopsys PrimeTime** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **Unix** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 45

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-24T22:57:19Z

## 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**: 29
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.485
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:0, evergreen, velocity, win:late, crowd:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 120000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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