Pre-Silicon Architecture Modeling Leader

Altera Corporation; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 341,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Corporation in San Jose, California seeks a Product Architecture Model Development Leader to drive behavioral and architectural models for next‑gen FPGA silicon before RTL development. You will lead a team, set modeling direction, and ensure accuracy and maintainability across multiple generations.

Collaborate with architecture, verification, firmware, and software teams to enable pre-silicon prototyping, early RTL and data-flow development, and customer enablement ahead of silicon

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 15+ years in silicon architecture/design/verification with 5+ years in leadership.
• Strong hands-on modeling in C++, SystemC, and/or SystemVerilog.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of behavioral/model developers for cycle-approximate and functional models.
• Define modeling methodology, coding standards, and architecture.
• Own roadmap for model development aligned with architecture milestones.
• Collaborate with architecture, verification, firmware, and software teams.

Skills

C++, SystemC

SystemVerilog

Leadership

FPGA/ASIC architecture

Pre-silicon modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or CS

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

CI pipelines

Python

Model automation

Job description

Altera Corporation in San Jose, California seeks a Product Architecture Model Development Leader to drive behavioral and architectural models for next‑gen FPGA silicon before RTL development. You will lead a team, set modeling direction, and ensure accuracy and maintainability across multiple generations.

Collaborate with architecture, verification, firmware, and software teams to enable pre-silicon prototyping, early RTL and data-flow development, and customer enablement ahead of silicon