Lead Technical Program Manager

Altera; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera is seeking a Lead Technical Program Manager to provide strategic program leadership for the development and delivery of next-generation FPGA products. This high-impact role drives execution across silicon, IP, hardware, software, firmware, validation, and manufacturing readiness.

The candidate partners with senior engineering leaders, product management, and executives to translate complex challenges into actionable execution plans, guiding programs from early definition through

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading large hardware/FPGA programs.
• Strong communication with executives and stakeholders.
• Ability to translate complex technical challenges into clear execution plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic technical program leadership for FPGA product development.
• Own program strategy, milestones, and cross-functional alignment from definition to production.
• Partner with senior engineering and product leaders to map roadmaps, schedules, and milestones.
• Drive alignment across distributed teams, establishing ownership, dependencies, and decisions.
• Lead cross-functional resolution of technical and organizational challenges, trade-offs, and risks.
• Establish and manage program-level risk frameworks and mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate RTL, verification, architecture, physical design, firmware, software, validation, and operations teams.
• Develop executive-level reporting with visibility into schedule, health, dependencies, and decisions.

Skills

Strategic leadership

FPGA domain

Cross-functional

Executive comms

Job description

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About the Role

Altera is seeking a Lead Technical Program Manager to provide strategic technical program leadership for the development and delivery of next-generation FPGA products. This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role responsible for driving execution across complex, multi-disciplinary engineering programs spanning silicon, architecture, IP, hardware, software, firmware, validation, and manufacturing readiness .

The Lead Technical Program Manager will operate across organizational boundaries to establish program strategy, drive execution against critical business and engineering objectives, and ensure alignment across highly technical teams. This individual will partner closely with senior engineering leaders, product management, and executive stakeholders to translate complex technical challenges into actionable execution plans and deliver products from early definition through production.

The ideal candidate brings deep silicon/hardware design background (or deep FPGA and semiconductor domain expertise) , exceptional technical program leadership capabilities, and a proven ability to lead complex programs where success requires influence across multiple organizations rather than direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic technical program leadership for complex, high-visibility FPGA product development programs spanning architecture, silicon, IP, hardware, software, firmware, validation, and production.
• Own program strategy, execution frameworks, critical milestones, and cross-functional alignment from early product definition through silicon bring-up, validation, sampling, and production release.
• Partner with senior engineering and product leaders to translate product and business objectives into integrated technical roadmaps, execution plans, schedules, and measurable milestones.
• Drive alignment across multiple engineering organizations and geographically distributed teams, establishing clear ownership, accountability, dependencies, and decision‑making mechanisms.
• Lead cross‑functional resolution of complex technical and organizational challenges, including integration issues, schedule constraints, resource conflicts, technical trade‑offs, and critical‑path risks.
• Establish and manage program‑level risk frameworks, proactively identifying issues that could impact product quality, schedule, cost, or business objectives and driving mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate execution across RTL, design verification, architecture, physical design, firmware, software, system engineering, validation, and operations teams.
• Drive technical readiness and execution across pre‑silicon and post‑silicon phases, including design completion, verification, tape‑out, silicon bring‑up, validation, debug, customer readiness, and production ramp.
• Develop executive‑level program reporting that provides clear visibility into schedule, technical health, dependencies, risk mitigation, resource requirements, and key decisions.
• Facilitate senior leadership reviews and drive timely decision‑making on issues requiring organizational alignment or executive escalation.
• Establish and continuously improve program management methodologies, operating mechanisms, tools, and reporting frameworks that increase predictability

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Salary Range

The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.

$187,000 – $270,700 USD

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