# Senior Lead Design Engineer

Job Details: Job Description: About the Role Altera is seeking a Senior Lead Design Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for the architecture, design, and delivery of next-generation FPGA and programmable SoC solutions. This is a senior individual-contributor/technical leadership role for an engineer who can influence technical direction across complex subsystems, product generations, and global engineering teams. In this role, you will lead the definition and implementation of high-performance digital logic and reusable IP for programmable devices and platform solutions. You will translate product and system requirements into scalable architectures, drive key design decisions, and guide execution from early concept through RTL delivery, validation, and product readiness. The successful candidate will bring deep experience in complex ASIC, SoC, or FPGA development, a rigorous approach to design quality, and the ability to deliver impactful solutions for data center, networking, AI, and edge applications. Responsibilities Lead architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL development for complex FPGA, programmable SoC, and infrastructure-class subsystems, with emphasis on hi

- **Id**: 3763143
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altera-senior-lead-design-engineer>
- **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**: 2026-11-04T19:13:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T10:23:08Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6597
- **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**: 87
- **Open postings**: 18
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.444
- **Repost share**: 0.111
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 53
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## 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**: 3

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T19:13:10Z

## 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**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:6, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

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

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