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Senior Director, Silicon Architecture and Design Engineering (Ethernet)

Altera 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America

$231,500 - $341,075 Full-time Senior Director

Lead Altera’s Ethernet Center of Excellence and global silicon engineering organization, setting Ethernet architecture, technical direction, and multi-generation roadmaps across its programmable device portfolio. Direct end-to-end silicon execution and complex program delivery, while coordinating with customers, standards bodies, partners, and internal teams on architecture, IP strategy, and engineering methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Altera’s Ethernet Center of Excellence and global silicon engineering organization, setting Ethernet architecture, technical direction, and multi-generation roadmaps across its programmable device portfolio. Direct end-to-end silicon execution and complex program delivery, while coordinating with customers, standards bodies, partners, and internal teams on architecture, IP strategy, and engineering methodologies.

Requirements

  • Requires a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, at least 15 years of silicon product development experience, and at least 10 years in networking and Ethernet technologies. Candidates must have deep IEEE 802.3 and high-speed Ethernet expertise, experience across the silicon development lifecycle, and familiarity with Ethernet through 800G-class and data-center networking; a master’s degree or PhD and experience with emerging 1.6T Ethernet and 112G/224G SerDes are preferred.

Key Skills

Silicon architecture Ethernet protocol design IEEE 802.3 standards High‑speed SerDes design 800G‑class Ethernet Data‑center networking Silicon development lifecycle IP strategy Roadmap planning Programmable device design System‑level verification RTL design Physical design (place & route) Timing closure Design for test (DfT) Cross‑functional team leadership Collaboration with standards bodies Partner and customer engagement Technical direction setting Advanced ASIC/FPGA design Power‑performance optimization Problem solving Strategic planning

About Altera

Altera powers applications from the cloud to the edge, unlocking new AI possibilities through performance- and power-optimized programmable computing solutions. Our technologies enable customers to accelerate AI inference, optimize data movement, advance real-time vision processing, and efficiently scale workloads across data centers, networks, and intelligent edge devices, while helping support data security and reliability in critical infrastructure. Altera’s broad end-to-end portfolio includes FPGAs, CPLDs, software, IP, development tools and accelerated computing platforms that provide the flexibility and performance needed to accelerate innovation across industries. Follow Altera to stay up to date on the latest innovations, insights, and breakthroughs shaping the future of AI and accelerated computing.

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