# Senior Lead Design Engineer - RTL Design

Job Details: Job Description: About the Role Altera is seeking a Senior Lead Design Engineer - RTL Design to provide hands-on technical leadership for the RTL architecture, design, integration, and delivery of next-generation FPGA and programmable SoC solutions. This is a technical leadership, individual-contributor role for an engineer who can set technical direction across complex subsystems, product generations, and global engineering teams. In this role, you will lead the implementation of high-performance, reusable RTL for programmable devices and platform solutions. You will translate system and product requirements into robust microarchitectures, define scalable implementation strategies, and guide execution from early concept through RTL delivery, verification, implementation, hardware validation, and product readiness. The successful candidate combines deep RTL design expertise with sound systems judgment and a high bar for quality, performance, power, and schedule. Responsibilities Lead RTL architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation for complex FPGA, programmable SoC, and infrastructure-class subsystems, with emphasis on high-throughput datapaths, memory access,

- **Id**: 3780374
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altera-senior-lead-design-engineer-rtl-design>
- **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**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T14:59:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7042
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Hardware, 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**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 231500
- **Max**: 330000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 330000

## Technologies

- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **Verilog** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T00:42:22Z

## 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**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 330000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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