Altera
Software Engineering Manager - Graphical User Interface (GUI)
San Jose, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Distributed Operations: Coordinate and align engineering efforts across globally distributed engineering teams.
- The pay range below is for Bay Area California only.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of GUI software engineers.
- Product Delivery: Drive the architecture, design, and execution of intuitive, high-performance GUI applications, working with hardware and software development teams across the company.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product management, applications engineering, and core EDA backend teams to deliver seamless workflows.
- Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of GUI software engineers.
- Drive the architecture, design, and execution of intuitive, high-performance GUI applications, working with hardware and software development teams across the company.
- Partner closely with product management, applications engineering, and core EDA backend teams to deliver seamless workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years' Management Experience: Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and managing software engineering teams.
- Design Flows: Strong understanding of hardware description languages, synthesis, place-and-route, and ASIC/FPGA design methodologies.
- Technical Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with C++, Qt, Python, Tcl, and Java.
- Advanced Degree: PhD in Electrical Engineering with a focus on EDA tool development or related fields.
- 5+ years'
Nice to have
- Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and managing software engineering teams.
- Global Leadership:
- Proven experience with developing highly interactive EDA tools.
- Strong understanding of hardware description languages, synthesis, place-and-route, and ASIC/FPGA design methodologies.
- Technical Expertise:
- Deep, hands-on experience with C++, Qt, Python, Tcl, and Java.
- Highly Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced Degree:
Skills
- Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
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.
Company info
- We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
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