Altera

Altera

FPGA and SoC provider with software

Business Development Manager - Automotive & Transportation

Full-Time
$166.9k - $241.6k/yr

+ Incentive opportunities

Senior
Bachelor's, Master's, MBA
San Jose, CA, USA
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About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is required.
  • At least 7 years of experience in automotive or transportation electronics, embedded systems, semiconductor, Tier-1, or original equipment manufacturer environments is required.
  • Strong understanding of automotive electrical and electronic architectures and the design and qualification cycle is required.
  • Strong understanding of sensor technologies and sensor fusion involving cameras, radar, and LiDAR is required.
  • Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
Responsibilities
  • Identify and prioritize target market segments across advanced driver-assistance systems and automated driving, electrical and electronic architecture evolution, electrified powertrain, and transportation systems.
  • Track and interpret trends in electrical and electronic architecture centralization, software-defined vehicles, sensor scaling and multi-sensor fusion, electrification, power-conversion topologies, and semiconductor content intensity.
  • Identify opportunities requiring multi-sensor aggregation and synchronization, deterministic low-latency processing, functional safety and hardware redundancy, and long-lifecycle support.
  • Build relationships with car original equipment manufacturers, Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers, transportation system integrators, sensor and SerDes vendors, power-device vendors, intellectual-property providers, and software and artificial-intelligence stack vendors.
  • Drive early-stage engagement with Sales to influence system and safety architecture decisions, position FPGA-based solutions, and secure design-ins across multi-year vehicle programs.
  • Support technical sales discussions covering sensor interfacing and fusion, real-time motor and inverter control, edge artificial-intelligence and machine-learning inference, and functional-safety implementation.
  • Engage in system-level discussions involving zonal and domain-controller architectures and trade-offs between sensor fusion and discrete processing and between deterministic and graphics-processing-unit-based processing.
  • Enable joint solutions and reference designs with ecosystem partners.
  • Develop sales collateral including solution briefs, reference architectures, competitive positioning, and return-on-investment and total-cost-of-ownership analyses.
  • Support Sales teams with use-case messaging, customer presentations, technical positioning, opportunity qualification, and deal progression.
  • Deliver presentations at customer meetings, industry events, and trade shows.
  • Provide structured market feedback to product management and engineering and influence product direction based on customer needs.
  • Support pricing discussions and business-case development.
  • Drive design wins, revenue growth, qualified opportunities, pipeline growth, forecast accuracy, customer engagements, and deal progression across Automotive and Transportation segments.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with FPGA-based systems or FPGA solution selling.
  • Understanding of high-speed input/output and memory subsystems, PCIe architectures, motor and inverter control, and edge artificial-intelligence deployment constraints involving latency, power, and thermal considerations.
  • Familiarity with functional safety and qualification standards including ISO 26262, ASIL, AEC-Q100, and IEC 61508.
  • Awareness of automotive cybersecurity and ISO/SAE 21434.
  • Prior experience with car original equipment manufacturers, Tier-1 suppliers, powertrain or advanced-driver-assistance-system developers, or rail and commercial-vehicle integrators.
  • A master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
  • An MBA or business training.

About the company

Altera designs and manufactures Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and System-on-Chips (SoCs) and sells design software. Its programmable logic devices let customers configure hardware after manufacturing to fit specific applications, supported by toolchains for hardware design and deployment. It serves automotive, communications, aerospace, and expanding sectors like AI, cloud, and edge computing, focusing on flexible, high-performance processing solutions. As an independent company after separating from Intel, its goal is to help customers bring customized hardware to market quickly by providing both configurable silicon and the software to design for it.

Company Size

N/A

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$21.2B

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

1983

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What believers are saying

  • September 15, 2026 confidential S-1 should surface AI-linked revenue and sharpen investor demand.
  • Agilex 3 and 5 shipping PQC features strengthen long-life defense, industrial, and infrastructure sales.
  • DDR5 expansion and Agilex 9 Direct RF samples improve competitiveness in AI and defense.

What critics are saying

  • Reuters said Altera could raise over $2 billion, exposing valuation scrutiny in 2026.
  • Intel still owns 49% after Silver Lake's deal, limiting strategic independence.
  • Xilinx and AMD attack Altera's AI and edge wins; stale design wins erode revenue.

What makes Altera unique

  • September 2026 IPO filing confirms Altera's pure-play FPGA positioning after Intel separation.
  • Agilex portfolio spans DDR5, LPDDR5X, PQC security, and quantum-control partnerships.
  • Rutronik distribution expands Altera's European reach beyond direct enterprise sales.

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Nextronics Times
Sep 18th, 2026
Altera partners with Rutronik to broaden FPGA distribution across Europe.

Altera partners with Rutronik to broaden FPGA distribution across Europe. Altera Corporation and European electronics distributor Rutronik have signed a strategic distribution agreement aimed at expanding customer access to Altera's FPGA portfolio across Europe. The agreement adds Rutronik to Altera's distribution network as the FPGA company expands its multi-distributor strategy. The companies said the partnership will give customers greater purchasing flexibility, technical support and supply-chain options across the European market. Rutronik will combine its regional distribution network with technical expertise to support customers using programmable logic devices in applications ranging from industrial automation and communications to edge AI and embedded systems. "As an independent FPGA company, Altera is focused on delivering the solutions customers need to innovate faster," said Thomas Boudrot, head of EMEA sales at Altera. He said Rutronik's technical sales team and focus on customer support would add to Altera's channel ecosystem. Rutronik's field application engineers and technical sales teams cover programmable logic, embedded architecture, power management, connectivity and system-level design. The distributor will also leverage its Rutronik System Solutions platform, which provides reference designs, development platforms and application-specific technical guidance. The companies said these resources are intended to simplify FPGA implementation, reduce development risks and support customers through different stages of the product lifecycle. "The addition of Altera significantly strengthens Rutronik's semiconductor portfolio and enhances our ability to support customers developing next-generation intelligent systems," said Reza Armin Maghdounieh, vice president of product marketing, semiconductors, at Rutronik. The partnership comes as programmable technologies are being used across a broader range of applications, including edge AI, industrial automation, machine vision, communications infrastructure and high-performance embedded systems. Altera and Rutronik said the agreement will provide customers across Europe with access to FPGA technologies and engineering support for industrial automation, smart mobility, communications, medical technology and edge AI applications.

Business Wire
Sep 17th, 2026
Altera Closes Silver Lake Investment to Become World’s Largest Pure-play FPGA Solutions Provider

Altera Corporation, a leader in FPGA innovations, today announced that Silver Lake, a global leader in technology investing, has completed its acquisition of...

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Altera
Sep 10th, 2026
Altera and Riverlane partner to bring quantum error correction support to Agilex(R) FPGAs.

Altera and Riverlane partner to bring quantum error correction support to Agilex(R) FPGAs. Riverlane Validates QECi Design Example on Altera Agilex(R) FPGAs, Joins the Altera Solutions Acceleration Partner Program SAN JOSE, Calif., and Cambridge, UK., 2026-09-10 Altera, the world's largest pure-play FPGA solutions provider, and Riverlane, the world leader in quantum error correction (QEC) technology and tools, today announced their partnership to help quantum hardware developers build more flexible control and error-correction systems that can process quantum data in parallel and rapidly move correction information through the control stack with predictable timing using Altera FPGAs. Riverlane has also joined the Altera Solutions Acceleration Partner Program (ASAP), expanding the ecosystem of specialized solutions that help customers reduce integration complexity and bring FPGA-based systems to market faster. Through the partnership, Riverlane has validated its QEC Interface (QECi) design example on an Altera Agilex 7 FPGA. The device's high-speed transceivers enable the fast, low-latency data movement required between quantum control and error-correction systems. Riverlane has published the design example in its open-source QECi repository on GitHub, giving developers a starting point for evaluating QEC data movement and integration with Agilex FPGA-based quantum control systems. "Quantum error correction requires tremendous parallel processing, high-speed connectivity and predictable timing as systems scale," said Farhad Shafai, vice president of business solutions at Altera. "Riverlane's validation of its low-latency QECi protocol on Agilex 7 and Agilex 9 FPGAs demonstrates how our programmable platforms can efficiently connect quantum control and error-correction technologies." QECi standardizes how error-correction data is exchanged between quantum control systems and QEC hardware, enabling developers to integrate different technologies as quantum architectures evolve. Running QECi on Agilex FPGAs provides the high-speed connectivity, deterministic low latency, and programmable processing needed for real-time quantum error correction. "Riverlane is focused on making quantum error correction practical across the full quantum-computing ecosystem," said Marco Ghibaudi, vice president of engineering at Riverlane. "Validating the QECi design example on Altera Agilex hardware demonstrates how an open interface can help connect quantum control systems with real-time error-correction technology and gives developers an accessible way to begin evaluating the integration." Altera Agilex 7 FPGAs and SoCs provide programmable fabric, high-speed transceivers, dense I/O, and 2x better performance per watt (vs. competing 7nm FPGAs) for demanding control and data-processing workloads. These capabilities can help quantum-system developers implement parallel processing and high-bandwidth connectivity for qubit control, readout, and QEC data paths. Across the broader Agilex portfolio, Altera's F-Tile high-speed transceivers are offered in both Agilex 7 FPGAs and Agilex 9 Direct RF FPGAs with integrated data converters, featuring up to 64 Gsps of sample rate and 36 GHz of RF range. Riverlane experts will be available at the Riverlane booth at IEEE Quantum Week 2026 [booth 309 and 311], taking place September 13-18 in Toronto, Canada, to discuss the QECi solution on Agilex FPGAs and its role in advancing quantum error correction. Developers can access the Riverlane QECi design example for Altera devices on GitHub. Learn more about Altera's quantum-computing solutions at altera.com. About Altera Altera is the world's largest pure-play FPGA solutions provider, with an exclusive focus on delivering FPGA innovations to the broad market. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of programmable hardware, software, and development tools that empower designers of electronic systems to innovate, differentiate, and execute with greater speed and efficiency. With industry-leading FPGAs, SoCs, and design solutions, Altera enables customers to achieve faster time-to-market, greater flexibility, and optimized performance across a wide range of applications, spanning physical AI, industrial automation, audio/video, robotics, aerospace, defense, data centers, telecommunications, and more. For more information, visit www.altera.com About Riverlane Riverlane is the world leader in quantum error correction (QEC), the technology that unlocks quantum computing's promise of a new age of human progress. Altera Corporation partner with over 60% of the world's quantum computer companies and leading high-performance computing (HPC) centres to solve the error problem blocking their path to 'utility-scale' systems that can transform multiple industries. Its real-time QEC system, Deltaflow, works with all major qubit types and includes proprietary QEC chips, decoders and a compiler. Deltakit, its software platform, helps quantum developers learn, develop and adopt QEC. Founded in 2016, Riverlane is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, and has offices in Boston in the US and Delft in the Netherlands. The company has raised over $120 million in private funding, including an $85 million Series C in 2024. Learn more here: www.riverlane.com Media Contacts:

Associated Press
Sep 8th, 2026
Altera adds post-quantum cryptography to Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGAs

Altera has added post-quantum cryptography support to its Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGAs, helping protect long-life systems against quantum-era threats. The devices now offer PQC-enabled secure boot and additional security features through the Secure Device Manager, including bitstream encryption, anti-tamper support, and key management. The reprogrammable architecture allows customers to adapt their designs as security requirements evolve. "Customers building long-life systems need confidence that the hardware they choose today can adapt to tomorrow's security requirements," said Mike Fitton, vice president of product and corporate marketing at Altera. PQC-enabled Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 devices are shipping today, supported by Quartus Prime Pro Edition 26.1.1 software.