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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

As a Product Development Engineer at Altera, you will play a critical role in bringing next-generation FPGA products from development into high-volume manufacturing by driving thermal characterization, system-level validation, and product performance optimization. In this role, you will develop and execute thermal characterization plans to evaluate device performance, reliability, and power behavior across operating temperature ranges, while performing detailed thermal and electrical characterization of FPGA products to correlate silicon measurements against design expectations and simulation models.

You will analyze characterization data to identify performance limitations, validate thermal specifications, and drive improvements across silicon design, package technology, cooling solutions, and manufacturing processes. In addition, you will lead the development and execution of System Level Test (SLT) methodologies to establish correlation between manufacturing test results and golden system-level performance, helping close tester-to-system performance gaps and optimize production test guardbands. This is a highly cross-functional role that partners closely with design, test, product engineering, packaging, manufacturing, and reliability teams to ensure Altera’s FPGA products meet performance, quality, and manufacturability targets at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute thermal characterization plans to evaluate device performance, reliability, and power behavior across operating temperature ranges.

• Perform thermal and electrical characterization of FPGA products, including correlation of silicon measurements against design and simulation models.

• Analyze thermal characterization data to identify performance limitations, validate thermal specifications, and drive design, package, cooling, and manufacturing improvements.

• Develop and execute System Level Test (SLT) methodologies to establish correlation between manufacturing test results and golden system-level performance, driving closure of tester-to-system performance gaps and optimization of production test guardbands.

• Develop and implement DFT strategies for FPGAs, including scan insertion, BIST (Built-In Self-Test), and test compression techniques.

• Collaborate with RTL design and verification teams to ensure testability features are embedded efficiently.

• Define and implement test plans, patterns, and fault models to ensure optimal test coverage and yield.

• Develop and maintain ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation), MBIST, and other manufacturing test content flows and scripts.

• Perform pre-silicon test pattern simulation and validation to ensure test effectiveness prior to tape-out.

• Analyze test results, debug silicon failures, and provide root cause analysis.

• Work with manufacturing and test teams to optimize test time, cost, and quality.

• Analyze early customer returns with emphasis on driving test hole closure activities.

• Drive test time reduction through analysis of fallout data versus test time for various IPs to balance and drive overall product cost optimizations.

• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging DFT/test technologies.

Salary Range

The 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. 

$106,200 - $153,000 USD

We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.

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Qualifications:

Job Type:

Regular

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:

San Jose, California, United States

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All 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.