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Job Description:

We are looking for a passionate and energetic Software Engineer to join our team at Altera! Altera is a pioneer of programmable logic solutions, enabling system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate, and win in their markets. Altera combines programmable logic technology with software tools, intellectual property, and customer support to provide high-value programmable solutions to many customers worldwide.

As a Software Engineer at Altera within the Debug Team, you can expect to work on Altera’s FPGA user-facing Debug Environment Tools such as SignalTap, System Console, and next-generation, user-facing debug tools. The goal of this team is to make implementing powerful embedded hardware systems a straightforward and enjoyable task from design creation through debugging and performance optimization. The team is responsible for the full stack of these tools, GUI, model, and OS specific device drivers.

We have the fortune of interacting in the highly dynamic space in between programmable hardware and embedded software; designing tools and infrastructure to empower design engineers in both realms.

As a Software Engineer in this position, you will need to be an excellent C++ and Java programmer with specific experience and interest in creating Java desktop applications. Some larger projects we're undertaking include:

• Inventing better ways to visualize and interact with complex hardware systems

• Improving our Eclipse-based Software Development IDE

• Enabling precise system interconnect manipulation and automatic optimization

• Tightly integrating our tool with others in Altera’s Design Suite

Our work varies from user experience to software architecture with plenty of opportunity to play anywhere in-between. We've assembled an energetic team of quality people and are looking for a couple more experienced programmers to help with the effort.

Software engineers within this team have direct influence on our customers and the adoption of our products, with tasks including the following:

• Work closely with developers across software and embedded engineering to ensure we develop design flows that meet our customers' needs

• Guide software release content, and serve as a liaison with the support, field, marketing, and product planning organizations

• Research, define, and validate key customer use cases and design flows

• Use Altera FPGA design tools like our customers to identify usability and productivity problems or missing features

• Utilize the Platform Designer system design tool and accompanying software toolchain for Altera's Nios soft processor and ARM-based SoC solutions

Salary Range

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.

$142.6- $206.5 USD

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Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering or equivalent and 5+ years of relevant industry experience

• 4 years of experience developing C++ and Java based desktop applications especially IDEs or CAD tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 years of experience with Tcl, Perl, and/or Python scripting skills

• 6 years of experience with multithreaded software applications

• Fluent/Expertise with C++ and Java

Job Type:

Regular

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:

San Jose, California, United States

Additional Locations:

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.