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About the role
Altera is looking for a Physical Design Engineer to join our Silicon Engineering organization.
What they're looking for
- Physical design fundamentals including floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, timing closure, and physical verification
- Experience with industry-standard physical design and signoff tools such as Cadence Innovus , Synopsys ICC2 , PrimeTime , Fusion Compiler , or similar tools
- Understanding of static timing analysis (STA), timing constraints, setup/hold concepts, and timing closure methodologies
- Experience reviewing and debugging timing, congestion, area, and power reports
- Familiarity with physical verification concepts including DRC/LVS and signoff quality checks
- Exposure to scripting or automation using Tcl, Python, Perl , or similar languages
More about this role
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.
Altera is looking for a Physical 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 environment.
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