Job Details:

Altera is seeking an experienced FPGA Development Tools Engineer to join its Benchmarking Team. This role focuses on developing, maintaining, and optimizing FPGA design flows, tools, and benchmarks used to evaluate Altera FPGA platforms, software tools, and IP against industry standards and competitive solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong FPGA design expertise, hands-on experience with FPGA development tools, and a passion for performance analysis and methodology development.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain FPGA benchmarking frameworks to evaluate FPGA architectures, IP, and development tools

• Design and optimize FPGA reference designs and workloads used for performance, power, and resource utilization benchmarking

• Collaborate with architecture, software, and marketing teams to define benchmark requirements, use cases, and metrics

• Analyze benchmarking results, identify performance bottlenecks, and provide actionable insights and recommendations

• Support competitive analysis by developing reproducible and defensible benchmarking methodologies

• Automate benchmarking flows using scripting and CI-friendly environments

• Document benchmarking methodologies, results, and best practices for internal stakeholders

• Contribute to tool flow improvements by providing feedback to FPGA tool development teams

• Stay current with industry benchmarks, standards, and emerging FPGA workloads

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

• 1+ years' experience with FPGA design and development

• Proficiency with FPGA development tools (e.g., synthesis, place-and-route, timing analysis, simulation)

• Experience with HDL languages such as Verilog and/or VHDL