Engineering/IT Specialist

Job Details Job Description: About Altera At Altera™, our independence as the world’s largest pure‑play FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of industry‑leading FPGA expertise, our singular mission is to deliver the programmable technologies that help customers differentiate, innovate, and scale across rapidly evolving markets like AI, cloud, networking, and edge. As an independent company, we move faster, invest deeper, and partner more closely—empowering our teams to drive breakthrough innovation and shape the future of the FPGA industry.

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 - elicting, 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, Test criteria and success metrics per request.

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.

$166,900 - $235,000 USD 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.
• Help Produce diagrams and decision records.
• Track dependencies, risks, and changes; chair working sessions.
• Weekly status, KPI dashboards, and executive readouts.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog and roadmap.

Job Type Regular

Shift Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location: San Jose, California, United States

Additional Locations: Posting 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.