# Product Physical Failure Analysis 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 We are seeking an experienced semiconductor Physical Failure Analysis Engineer responsible for root cause identification on yield, reliability and customer returns. Drives failure identification in processes and products and searches for improvements to enhance yield, performance, quality, and reliability of next generation product and package technologies. Collaborates with design and process development engineers to determine relationship of materials properties and electrical performance and thoroughly explains fundamental aspects of material

- **Id**: 93793
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altera-product-physical-failure-analysis-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **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**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T11:26:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 80
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4533
- **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**: 149100
- **Max**: 215925
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 215925

## Technologies

- **Electron Microscopy (SEM/TEM)** — Optional: no
- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **Advantest / Teradyne ATE** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 80

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T19:00:00Z

## 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**: 0.805
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 80
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 215925
- **Is top pay**: yes

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