Altera is hiring a Silicon Design Engineer

Job Title: Silicon Design Engineer

Company: Altera

The Silicon Design Engineer will lead silicon design efforts for SASIC, owning the delivery of high-quality IPs, subsystems, SoCs, or discrete silicon products. The role involves driving execution excellence, silicon quality, and engineering productivity across the full development lifecycle.

• Work with customer-facing teams to debug, verify, and optimize circuit and physical design to deliver complex IPs, subsystems, SoCs, or discrete chips.
• Conduct and oversee architecture and design reviews to ensure power, performance, area, cost (PPAC), and quality targets are met.
• Drive continuous improvement of silicon development methodologies, design processes, and architectural definition across design disciplines.
• Oversee design verification strategy and execution, including test results review, data analysis, issue tracking, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation.
• Partner with IP, platform, and SoC teams to enable integration, performance optimization, and robust design implementation.
• Establish clear goals and milestones, remove execution barriers, maintain accountability, and drive predictable delivery outcomes.
• Apply effective performance management, coach and develop talent, and foster a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Proven experience in silicon design across one or more domains: logic design, verification, circuit design, or physical design.
• Experience leading technical teams or projects in semiconductor or silicon product development.
• Strong understanding of the full silicon development lifecycle, from architecture definition through tape-out and post-silicon validation.
• Demonstrated ability to drive quality, execution discipline, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams delivering complex SoC or IP designs at advanced process nodes.
• Deep knowledge of PPAC optimization, silicon bring-up, debug, and yield considerations.
• Strong data-driven decision-making skills and experience driving process and methodology improvements.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

This role is based in Bucharest, Romania, with remote flexibility available.

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.