Engineering/IT Specialist

About Altera

At Altera™, the world’s largest pure‑play FPGA solutions provider, our independence gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of industry‑leading FPGA expertise, we deliver programmable technologies that help customers differentiate, innovate, and scale across rapidly evolving markets such as AI, cloud, networking, and edge.

About the Role

Join Altera as an Engineering/IT Specialist! The Engineering/IT specialist is a dedicated specialist who translates complex engineering needs into actionable IT work, accelerates delivery, and resolves cross‑domain issues.

Objectives

• Act as a primary interface between IT, Engineering and manufacturing – eliciting, translating and negotiating business requirements into clear, actionable and scalable IT infrastructure roadmaps and designs.
• Convert requests into clear specs, user stories, and RFCs (functional & non‑functional).
• Define acceptance criteria and success metrics per request.

Compensation

Salary Range (Bay Area, California only): $166,900 – $235,000 USD. Actual salary may vary based on location, experience, skills, etc. Incentive opportunities may also apply.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 9+ years of hands‑on experience and skills working with SW & HW engineering development environments including SCM tools, Perforce, GitHub, Jira, EDA tools, complex build and test environments, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• In‑depth understanding of dependencies and interactions of the above with underlying IT services and tools—i.e., Network, Compute, Security, Data Center, Cloud, etc.
• Draft high‑level and component‑level designs (network, compute, storage, security, data).
• Validate capacity, resilience (RTO/RPO), and cost impacts with IT owners.
• Produce diagrams and decision records.
• Track dependencies, risks, and changes; chair working sessions.
• Provide weekly status, KPI dashboards, and executive readouts.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog and roadmap.

Job Type & Location

Job Type: Regular
Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)
Primary Location: San Jose, California, United States
Additional Locations: Not specified

EEO Statement

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.