Altera
Director of Foundry Engineering
San Jose, California, United States · Director
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About the role
- 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.
- Influence long ‑ term manufacturing and technology decisions at the enterprise level
- Opportunity to shape Altera's next generation of programmable solutions
Responsibilities
- Lead yield improvement, defect reduction, parametric optimization, and reliability validation efforts
- Partner with Product Engineering and Quality teams to resolve yield, reliability, and excursion issues
- Own and manage Altera's technical relationships with external foundry partners across advanced and mature process nodes
- Lead process technology selection, qualification, and risk assessment aligned to product roadmaps
- Drive foundry process enablement, PDK readiness, and design ‑ to ‑ manufacturing alignment
- Work closely with Design Engineering, DTCO teams, Product Line Management, Supply Chain, and Operations
- Support early design decisions to optimize manufacturability, cost, performance, and schedule
- Build, lead, and mentor a high ‑ performing foundry engineering organization
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or related technical field
- 15+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing, foundry engineering, or process technology
- Experience in advanced CMOS process nodes, yield engineering, and reliability
- Experience leading complex, cross ‑ functional technical programs
- Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- Demonstrated experience working directly with major semiconductor foundries
Nice to have
- Experience supporting logic, SoC, or FPGA products
- Prior people management experience at the senior manager or director level
- Familiarity with multi ‑ foundry or foundry ‑ agnostic manufacturing strategies
Skills
- About Altera
Compensation
- 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.
- $209,500 - $303,250 USD
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