Custom Circuit Design Undergrad Intern

Job Details:

Job Description:

About Altera

Altera, provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from the cloud to the edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation.

Our innovation of programmable logic started in 1983 in Silicon Valley. In 1984, Altera unveiled the world’s first programmable logic device capable of being programmed, erased, and reprogrammed altering the future of innovation.

About the Role

You will be part of a team designing various custom circuits on Altera FPGAs such as PLLs and clocking circuits, regulators, ADC, IO circuits etc and will get an opportunity to work with senior designers on analog and digital circuit sub-blocks such as amplifiers, comparators, oscillators, counters etc.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Custom analog/digital circuit design, layout interaction, extraction, simulations, performance/reliability/high voltage analysis

• Validate design implementation and assumptions with simulations

• Help run formal checks such as UPF and ERC, timing and power modeling

• Develop solutions to problems utilizing formal education and judgment

• Automate design tasks in order to complete the design in the most efficient fashion possible.

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.

$85,000 - $90,000 USD 

We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations. 

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

To be qualified, candidates must be working towards their Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering or related field, plus have 3+ months of experience/coursework in:

• Analog/Mixed Signal Circuit Design or Custom Circuit Design

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in any of the following:

• Digital/Logic design

• Matlab modeling

• Scripting in C++/Perl/Python/TCL

• Strong data analysis, excellent verbal, documentation and presentation skills

Job Type:

Student / Intern (Fixed Term)

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.