AI Lead for Hardware Design & EDA Innovation

Altera; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 206,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera seeks an AI Lead in HW Engineering in San Jose, CA to define and drive the company's AI strategy for chip design and to deploy AI-driven tools across design, verification, and implementation workflows. This senior individual-contributor role emphasizes technical leadership over management, with influence across multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities include building AI tooling, establishing benchmarks, and partnering with CAD/IT to enable AI-enabled design workflows while measuring

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in semiconductor/hardware design, verification, or implementation.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML techniques to real engineering workflows, ideally within chip design/verification/implementation.

Responsibilities

• Define AI strategy for hardware design, verification, and implementation aligned to roadmaps.
• Drive end-to-end deployment of AI-driven tools into production design flows.
• Build and own the AI tooling stack for hardware teams.

Skills

Hardware design

EDA tools

AI/ML in HW design

Python

LLM tooling

Customer engagement

Influence without authority

Communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

EDA tooling

ML frameworks

Job description

Altera seeks an AI Lead in HW Engineering in San Jose, CA to define and drive the company's AI strategy for chip design and to deploy AI-driven tools across design, verification, and implementation workflows. This senior individual-contributor role emphasizes technical leadership over management, with influence across multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities include building AI tooling, establishing benchmarks, and partnering with CAD/IT to enable AI-enabled design workflows while measuring