NVM Device Engineer, Sr Staff

Category Engineering Hire Type Employee Job ID 9678 Remote Eligible No Date Posted 27/03/2025

Synopsys is seeking senior staff device engineer to join its growing NVM team. In this highly visible position, you will play a key role in implementing Synopsys NVM IP in multiple technologies with top semiconductor foundry partners. You will use your deep knowledge of semiconductor device physics to design and implement NVM bitcells. You will work with highly skilled and diverse engineers to build next generation NVM products leading to our future growth.

What you’ll do….

•Design and characterize NVM bit cells on a wide range of foundry processes.

•Layout test structures to evaluate novel bit cell concepts.

•Perform bench measurements to understand basic device characteristics and bit cell performance.

•Setup and maintain a device lab.

•Spice simulation to understand device behaviors, often outside the range recommended by foundries. Collect necessary bench data to support modeling.

•Evaluate foundry PDK changes and provide expert advice to design team on their impacts to NVM design.

•Understand ESD and latchup prevention techniques. Able to advice design and layout teams to achieve solid ESD and latchup protection.

•Understand reliability checks like SOA, EMIR, Aging, PERC. Work with design and layout teams to fix (or justify waiving) the violations.

•Work with different engineering teams with diverse disciplines across multiple geographic area and time-zones.

•Review foundry electrical and reliability data to ensure successful implementation of Synopsys NVM IP. Work with foundry for additional device data collection if needed

Requirements:

•MS in EE or related fields with at least 10 years of experience in semiconductor industry.

•Solid knowledge of device physics and reliability. Experience in NVM is a plus.

•Experience with bench measurement.

•Good understanding of state-of-art process flows such as HKMG, FinFET, GAA and SOI.

•Familiar with common EDA tools (such as Spice, layout, DRC, LVS, etc.)

•Team player. Ability to lead, influence and corporate with other team members for common goals.

•Multi-tasking skills managing multiple projects simultaneously without schedule slip.

•Excellent people skill. Able to maintain smooth working relation with wide range of customers and partners, both internal and external.

•Excellent written and oral communication skills. Able to conduct verbal and written communications in English.

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.