Senior Backend Design Automation Engineer — New Process Node Enablement

Job Details: 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. You will be working in the Design Automation group as a senior owner of Backend design automation flows, responsible for bringing up the design environment for new process nodes, carrying it through to production use, and providing ongoing project support. Our design teams are our users: you will work directly with design team leads, domain representatives, and technology enablement partners to understand what a new node demands of the Back-End flows, then define, build, deploy, and support the methodology that gets designers to sign-off. New node bring-up and project support are the core of the job, not a side project. Every new process node arrives as a PDK, a standard-cell library, and a set of technology collateral that nothing in our flow stack has seen before. You will be one of the engineers who turns that raw delivery into a working design environment—intercepting PDK and Foundation IP from the foundry, updating flow scripts and tool configurations, and building and running regression test cases that prove each Back-End step runs successfully. We are in the middle of a genuine modernization: consolidating Back-End construction, verification, and analysis into a new unified flow environment with managed workspaces and released collateral, replacing inherited infrastructure with solutions we own end to end. A senior engineer joining now will have the opportunity to shape how the next several process nodes are enabled. You will work with other Design Automation teams and engineering experts across the globe to enable new process nodes for new projects. We are actively applying AI and ML inside our design automation flows, including runtime and resource prediction, automated failure summarization and categorization in regressions, and knowledge capture from debug. AI-assisted development tools are also in everyday use across the Design Automation teams. If you want to bring these techniques into Back-End flow development and process node bring-up, you will find an organization already leaning in.