Senior Director / Vice President Of Software Engineering – Front-end Design Tools & Ai Acceleration (eda + Agentic Ai)

Altera Corporation

San Jose, California, United States
Base: $221.5k - $326.3k usd; bonus/equity: incenti...
Leadership of large-scale engineering teams
Deep understanding of eda tools and fpga workflows
Experience with gui/ide frameworks and toolchain integration
This role leads the transformation toward intelligent, AI-powered design environments powered by LLMs and agentic workflows

Job Summary

  • This role leads the transformation toward intelligent, AI-powered design environments powered by LLMs and agentic workflows.
  • The successful candidate will oversee the full-stack development of Quartus front-end tools including design entrance, GUI frameworks, and timing analysis.
  • You will collaborate with architecture and hardware teams to ensure the design environment supports AI acceleration use cases and custom dataflow mapping.

Matching Summary

This role leads the transformation toward intelligent, AI-powered design environments powered by LLMs and agentic workflows.

Salary

Base: $221.5K - $326.3K USD; Bonus/Equity: Incentive opportunities based on performance; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Leadership of large-scale engineering teams
  • Deep understanding of EDA tools and FPGA workflows
  • Experience with GUI/IDE frameworks and toolchain integration
  • Knowledge of hardware/software co-design
  • Familiarity with agentic AI and LLM copilots

Nice-to-have

  • Strong interest in AI/ML acceleration on FPGA platforms
  • Experience with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Windsurf
  • Ability to translate innovation into production-ready tools
  • Commitment to mentorship and diverse engineering culture

Key Requirements

  • Proven leadership of 50+ engineer teams
  • Technical fluency in design data models
  • Understanding of agentic AI and developer-facing tools

Work Rights

Not specified

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