Product Development Engineer - San Jose, California, United States

Originally posted 9 July 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 10 July 2026.

About the role

As a Product Development Engineer at Altera, you will bring FPGA products from development into high-volume manufacturing by driving thermal characterization, system-level validation, and product performance optimization. You will also develop and implement DFT strategies, test patterns, and manufacturing test flows.

What you'll do

- Develop and execute thermal characterization plans to evaluate device performance, reliability, and power behavior across operating temperature ranges. - Perform thermal and electrical characterization of FPGA products, correlating silicon measurements against design expectations and simulation models. - Lead the development and execution of System Level Test (SLT) methodologies to close tester-to-system performance gaps and optimize production test guardbands. - Develop and implement DFT strategies for FPGAs, including scan insertion, BIST (Built-In Self-Test), and test compression techniques. - Develop and maintain ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation), MBIST, and manufacturing test content flows and scripts. - Perform pre-silicon test pattern simulation and validation prior to tape-out, analyze silicon failures, and drive test hole closure activities.

What you'll need

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field. - 4+ years of experience in product engineering, silicon validation, product development, or semiconductor characterization. - 4+ years of experience with thermal and/or electrical characterization of semiconductor devices, including developing and executing characterization plans across operating conditions. - Experience correlating silicon measurements with design expectations, simulation models, or product specifications to validate device performance, power, and reliability behavior. - Experience with system-level test, production test, or post-silicon validation methodologies, including analyzing test data to improve correlation between manufacturing test results and system-level performance.

Nice to have

- Experience working with FPGA, ASIC, or other complex semiconductor products in a product engineering, validation, or characterization environment. - Experience with thermal test methods, temperature chamber testing, and silicon performance characterization across voltage and temperature corners. - Knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing test flows, SLT, ATE correlation, guardband optimization, or yield/performance analysis. - Experience analyzing electrical, thermal, or performance data to identify trends, root cause issues, and drive product or test improvements. - Scripting and data analysis experience using Python, Perl, MATLAB, or similar tools to automate test execution and analyze characterization data.

Skills: DFT strategies, scan insertion, interconnect testing, ATPG, test pattern simulation