Principal FPGA Compiler Software Engineer
📌San Jose, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ principal
💰 200400
Job Description:
Become a member of our world-class software research and development team! Altera® develops programmable logic technologies to accelerate innovation for many customers worldwide.
You will be architecting and developing leading-edge software innovations for Quartus, the tool that optimizes our FPGA devices, within a research-oriented team. The Quartus Placement optimization engines are key to unlocking high performance, area and power efficiency for our customer's design applications.
As part of the Quartus Placement team, your role will include:
- Leading research & development efforts to explore novel optimization algorithms for our FPGA CAD software tools, including timing-driven analytic placement, detailed placement, partitioning and floorplanning
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Developing and optimizing the software to drive performance improvements by leveraging innovative FPGA hardware features
- Intellectual curiosity and a passion for exploring new technology
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and attention to detail
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Great communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills
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.
$200.4k - $280.1k USD
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
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MS + 15 years of industry software experience, or PhD + 10 years of industry software experience
- Significant experience coding & hands-on development of high performance multi-core software systems
- Extensive experience as an architect/technical lead for developing EDA placement optimization algorithms
- Proven leadership skills for collaborative cross functional projects
- Experience with Altera® Quartus or AMD Vivado software
- Experience with combinatorial/continuous optimization, including but not limited to Boolean SAT, stochastic search-based methods, numerical methods for continuous optimization, dynamic programming, and applications to FPGA placement
- Experience with NOC optimization for FPGA placement
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Experience with applying machine learning techniques to EDA software
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.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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