Job Details:

Job Description:
Altera is seeking an experienced Physical Design Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for delivering production-quality physical implementation for advanced semiconductor designs. This role combines technical leadership, people management, cross-functional execution, and ownership of predictable, high-quality tapeout results.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across the physical design flow, a robust track record managing complex SoC or ASIC programs, and the ability to build an inclusive, accountable engineering culture.
What you will do
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of physical design engineers in Bangalore.
• Own physical implementation planning and execution from netlist through signoff and tapeout.
• Drive floorplanning, power planning, placement, clock-tree synthesis, routing, optimization, extraction, timing closure, physical verification, and signoff activities.
• Establish technical direction, project priorities, execution plans, and quality standards for the team.
• Partner closely with RTL design, microarchitecture,



DFT, STA, CAD, verification, packaging, and product engineering teams.
• Identify physical design risks early and lead mitigation plans across schedule, power, performance, area, and manufacturability.
• Review and improve design methodologies, automation, flows, tools, and engineering practices.
• Ensure effective use of metrics, reviews, documentation, and lessons learned to improve predictability and execution quality.
• Contribute to staffing plans, capability development, performance management, and succession planning.
• Communicate technical status, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to engineering leadership.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in ASIC or SoC physical design, with significant experience leading teams or major project areas

📌 Physical Design Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Altera
📍 Bengaluru