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R&D Engineering, Senior Director (Verification lead for PCIe Express controller)

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Category: Engineering Hire Type: Employee
Job ID 7024 Date posted 02/24/2025

The Team You’ll Be A Part Of:

You will be leading a dynamic and innovative R&D verification team focused on developing digital PCI Express controllers within the Intellectual Property Group within Synopsys. This team collaborates closely with the VIP, PHY, Sub-System service, emulation, methodology, support and customer success teams to deploy the PCIe controller to the market space as an overall one Synopsys solution as high quality differentiated products.

You Are:

An inspiring leader with a proven track record in managing and leading teams focused on IP product development. You thrive in a matrixed, international, and team-oriented environment with multiple stakeholders. Your collaborative, supportive, and inspirational leadership style delivers results that exceed expectations. 

You are a leader that builds structure and growth of teams that enables successful execution to plan a predefined plan of record.

Ideally you are an expert in PCI Express and ARM based SOC architectures around PCI Express that enables you to drive product definition and roadmaps. 

You are a verification leader with previous digital controller development background and experience in managing large R&D digital teams. 

You can leverage your expertise in leading innovative world class IP solutions in driving quality leading across a multi-site team to communicate the product verification strategy. 

You have a deep understanding of digital design verification principles that enables you to lead complex verification projects. Your communication skills are top-notch, allowing you to effectively influence and collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders. 

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Ultimately responsible for PCIe/CXL verification strategy and functional quality. 
  • Leading and managing an organization of large teams of R&D verification engineers focused on verifying digital IP controllers, namely PCIe/CXL, to the product line’s plan-of-record. 
  • Ensure that the verification team capacity and team structure are setup to meet market demand. With fixed resources, help define the prioritization of asks with stakeholders and align an execution plan to achieve of plan of record. 
  • Adapting to methodologies that improve the quality of the controllers and productivity of the team.
  • Manage project scope, project schedule, project resource costs and project risk. Review project convergence metrics with team, identifying risks early and mitigate against such risk. Align with management on project resource needs and trade-offs. 
  • Lead verification R&D activities as required around customer pre-sales engagements and post-sales support and escalation management as pertaining to quality. 

The Impact You Will Have

  • Ensuring that the underlying team structure, competency and productivity around verification activity can deliver on-time and with quality to the market requirements 
  • Contributing to Synopsys' leadership in the semiconductor industry through and more specifically PCI Express controllers 
  • Delivering efficiency & productivity gains in digital design and verification of IP products. 
  • Minimize both pre and post sales customer escalations past your role
  • Drive the quality of the Synopsys PCI Express controller product line to ensure a smooth customer experience and the bolster the reputation of Synopsys as the number #1 IP provider

What You’ll Need:

  • A verification expert in UVM methodologies, testbench environment creation and verification in constrained Random Verification, CRV, utilizing functional coverage to close verification.
  • Expert in leading a large verification teams. 
  • Experience in creating structures with clean lines of responsibility and accountability down management chain. 
  • Ideally, deep knowledge of PCIe technologies and related protocols.
  • Proven track record of leading and managing teams focused on IP product development.
  • Ability to agilely learn from team mistakes and either define new process’s or enforce existing process’s as preventative actions.  
  • Excellent communication, organizational, risk assessment/mitigation and time management skills. Ability to abstract up and communicate meaningful conclusions and define next steps. 
  • Embodying a collaborative, supportive, and inspirational leadership style to deliver results that exceed expectations.

Who You Are:

  • Inspirational and collaborative leader.
  • Excellent communicator and collaborator.
  • Team-oriented and supportive.
  • Innovative and forward-thinking.
  • Results-driven and detail-oriented.
  • Adaptable and comfortable in a matrixed, international environment.
  • A strategic thinker with a passion for innovation.
  • A mentor and leader with a commitment to developing others.
  • An expert in your field with a deep understanding of digital design principles.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills.
  • Capable of fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence.

Rewards and Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.

At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.

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