# Senior Lead Engineer - Design Verification 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: $232K to $330K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://altera.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Altera/job/San-Jose-California-United-States/Senior-Lead-Engineer---Design-Verification_R03438?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altera-senior-lead-engineer-design-verification/

## About the role

Altera is seeking a Senior Lead Engineer - Design Verification to provide hands-on technical leadership for the verification of next-generation FPGA, programmable SoC, and platform solutions. This senior individual-contributor role will shape verification architecture, methodology, and execution for complex digital subsystems and full-chip integrations. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Demonstrated technical leadership delivering verification for complex digital subsystems or products from architecture through RTL verification, integration, full-chip verification, and hardware or silicon validation
- Deep expertise in SystemVerilog and UVM, including constrained-random verification, assertions, self-checking environments, testbench architecture, functional coverage, and coverage-driven closure
- Proven experience creating reusable verification IP, UVM frameworks, testbench components, or methodology adopted across multiple blocks, teams, or programs
- Experience verifying high-performance digital architectures such as networking or packet-processing datapaths, memory subsystems, on-chip interconnect, PCIe/CXL, Ethernet, high-speed I/O, or programmable acceleration
- Strong understanding of RTL design, microarchitecture, simulation, debug, formal or static verification concepts, and hardware development flows
- Experience with regression management, simulation build and execution flows, test automation, and data-driven verification reporting


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