# Senior Design Automation Engineer — Reliability Verification (RV) Tools, Flows and Methodology at Altera

- Company: Altera
- What the company does: Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.altera.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $149K to $216K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://altera.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Altera/job/San-Jose-California-United-States/Senior-Design-Automation-Engineer---Reliability-Verification--RV--Tools--Flows-and-Methodology_R03171
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altera-senior-design-automation-engineer-reliability-verification-rv-tools-flows/

## About the role

You will be working in the Silicon Design Automation (Design Automation / CAD) group as a senior owner of Reliability Verification tools, flows and methodology (TFM), responsible for developing and supporting our RV flows across custom/analog and ASIC design styles — and for running block-level RV yourself on live projects.

## What they're looking for

- Hands-on production experience with at least one industry-standard EM/IR tool: Ansys Totem, Ansys RedHawk/RedHawk-SC, Cadence Voltus or Voltus-XFi
- Working understanding of electromigration, static and dynamic IR drop, self-heating, current density and peak-current analysis, and how RV set points translate into design sign-off criteria
- Practical experience running verification or analysis on real design databases and debugging results with designers
- Strong programming and automation skills in Python and Tcl, plus shell scripting in a Linux/LSF-style compute environment
- Ability to work effectively and independently across geographically distributed teams (San Jose, Penang, India), with attention to detail and strong written and verbal communication