Engineering/IT Specialist

Altera Corporation

$166K — $235K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree with 9+ years of experience in SW & HW engineering development environments.
  • Proficient with SCM tools including Perforce, GitHub, and Jira.
  • Deep understanding of interactions between IT services and engineering tools.
  • Skilled in drafting both high-level and component-level designs for IT infrastructure.
  • Experience in validating capacity and resilience metrics with IT team members.
  • Adept at producing diagrams and decision-making records to document processes.
  • Familiarity with tracking project dependencies, risks, and changes.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a liaison among IT, Engineering, and manufacturing to clarify business needs.
  • Transform requests into detailed specifications and user stories.
  • Define acceptance criteria and success metrics for IT projects.
  • Support the creation of diagrams and decision records for design.
  • Manage project dependencies, risks, and facilitate working sessions.
  • Produce weekly status updates and KPI dashboards for stakeholders.
  • Maintain a prioritized backlog and actionable roadmap for projects.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a cross-disciplinary environment involving IT and engineering.
  • Access to performance-based incentives that reward both individual and company achievements.
  • Engagement in high-impact projects that shape IT infrastructure and engineering processes.
Full Job Description
Job Details:

Job Description:

About the Role

Join Altera as an Engineering/IT Specialist! The Engineering/IT specialist is a dedicated specialist who translates complex engineering needs into actionable IT work, accelerates delivery, and resolves cross-domain issues.

Objectives:
  • Act as a primary interface between IT, Engineering and manufacturing - elicting, translating and negotiating business requirements into clear, actionable and scalable IT infrastructure roadmaps and designs
  • Convert requests into clear specs, user stories, and RFCs (functional & non-functional).
  • Define acceptance, Test criteria and success metrics per request.


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.

$166,900 - $235,000 USD

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Qualifications:

Minimum Requirements:
  • Bachelor's Degree and 9+ years of hands on experience and skills working with SW & HW engineering development environments including SCM tools, Perforce, GitHub, Jira, EDA tools, complex build and test environments, ci/cd pipelines, etc.
  • In-Depth understanding of dependencies and interactions of the above with underlying IT services and tools - i.e. Network, Compute, Security, Data Center, Cloud, etc.
  • Draft high-level and component-level designs (network, compute, storage, security, data).
  • Validate capacity, resilience (RTO/RPO), and cost impacts with IT owners.
  • Help Produce diagrams and decision records.
  • Track dependencies, risks, and changes; chair working sessions.
  • Weekly status, KPI dashboards, and executive readouts.
  • Maintain a prioritized backlog and roadmap.


Job Type:
Regular

Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:
San Jose, California, United States

Additional Locations:

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