Altera
Physical AI Architect
San Jose, California, United States
Sponsorship not specified$133k-$190kDetected 30 days ago
Machine LearningComputer VisionFPGARoboticsElectrical EngineeringSignal ProcessingResearchLeadership
About the role
- Altera is seeking a PhD-level Engineer/Physical AI Architect to help define the next generation of Physical AI platforms for robotics, industrial automation, machine vision, and autonomous systems.
- The role will focus on mapping real-world Physical AI workloads to optimized hardware/software architectures and influencing future Altera product roadmaps.
- As part of Altera's Embedded Architecture team, you will work across CPU, GPU, Real-Time Unit (RTU), Video, and Physical AI technologies, helping shape the future of heterogeneous computing platforms.
Responsibilities
- Drive architecture tradeoffs involving performance, latency, power, memory bandwidth, and determinism.
- Develop workload models, benchmarks, and performance projections for robotics and autonomous systems.
- The candidate will drive system architecture and workload analysis across heterogeneous compute platforms combining CPUs, DSPs, FPGA fabric, AI accelerators, GPUs, memory subsystems, and high-speed sensor interfaces.
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience and research interest in system architecture, embedded computing, AI acceleration, robotics, or heterogeneous computing.
- 1+ years understanding of CPU, DSP, FPGA, GPU, AI accelerator, memory, and interconnect architectures.
- Proven track record of technical leadership, innovation, and architecture definition.
- We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related field.
- Experience with AI/ML, computer vision, robotics, or autonomous systems workloads.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of FPGA-based acceleration and heterogeneous computing platforms.
- Publications, patents, or recognized contributions in AI, robotics, or computer architecture.
- Shift 1 (United States of America)
- San Jose, California, United States
- Posting Statement:
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.
- $133,200 - $190,000 USD
Benefits
- Analyze and partition AI, vision, perception, planning, and control workloads across CPU, DSP, FPGA fabric, GPU, and AI accelerators.
Company info
- Collaborate with customers, ecosystem partners, and internal silicon teams to identify future platform requirements.
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