Test & Validation Engineering, Staff Engineer

Job Description and Requirements

As a Silicon Validation Engineer, you will be part of an R&D team developing high speed SerDes PHYs. You will work with a cross functional design team of analog designers and hardware engineers from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Our R&D test lab contains high speed test equipment so if you enjoy working with state of the art equipment, Synopsys will be a perfect career choice for you.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Performing testing on silicon implementations of high-speed analog integrated circuits

• Results review and debugging of silicon under test, as well as hardware supporting

• Running characterization tests and creating test reports

• Creating test boards/hardware solutions to support test, debug, and characterization

• Apply theoretical knowledge to investigate and explain circuit behavior and circuit limitations in a testing and characterization environment

Key Qualifications:

• BSEE

• Solid Analog IC circuit knowledge

• Solid debugging skills

• Lab equipment skills (oscilloscopes, network analyzers)

• Software programming experience (MATLAB, Python are preferences)

• FPGA programming knowledge (Verilog)

• Knowledge of interface protocols such as USB, PCI Express, SATA and Ethernet

• Knowledge of NRZ and PAM4 encoding

• Knowledge of communication interfaces such as JTAG, I2C and SPI

• Good English communication skills

The base salary range across the U.S. for this role is between $101,000-$151,000. In addition, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request.

Our Silicon IP business is all about integrating more capabilities into an SoC-faster. We offer the world's broadest portfolio of silicon IP-predesigned blocks of logic, memory, interfaces, analog, security, and embedded processors. All to help customers integrate more capabilities. Meet unique performance, power, and size requirements of their target applications. And get differentiated products to market quickly with reduced risk.

At Synopsys, we're at the heart of the innovations that change the way we work and play. Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the Era of Smart Everything. And we're powering it all with the world's most advanced technologies for chip design and software security. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.

Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.