Analog Layout Design, Staff Engineer

Markham, Ontario, Canada

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Overview

Our Hardware Engineers at Synopsys are responsible for designing and developing cutting-edge semiconductor solutions. They work on intricate tasks such as chip architecture, circuit design, and verification to ensure the efficiency and reliability of semiconductor products. These engineers play a crucial role in advancing technology and enabling innovations in various industries.

Job Description

Category Engineering Hire Type Employee Job ID 5557 Remote Eligible No Date Posted 18/09/2024

Senior Analog Layout Design Engineer

This position requires a highly motivated and experienced layout designer to work with our mixed signal analog design team on collaborating and integrating leading edge custom designed IP into our final product for next generation DDR/LPDDR/HBM IP. We are seeking a high-energy, results driven engineer with a take charge leadership style and attentiveness to design performance, quality, schedule, and current and future customer needs. You would leverage your strong understanding of circuit layout as well as knowledge of bipolar, CMOS, passive structure, and interconnect failure modes.
Key Qualifications:

Engineering degree with demonstrated 2+ years’ experience in a product managing role for mixed signal IP
Exceptional communication and public speaking skills is a must
In depth familiarity with layout of analog and mixed signal CMOS circuits
Experience in development of DDR subcircuit layout (ie. RX, TX, PLL, etc…)
Experience in the following layout design techniques:
- Optimization for signal integrity (ie. clock/data routes, differential routing, shielding)
- Implementation of ESD design constraints, latch-up risk mitigation
- Familiarity with custom digital layout (logic cell layout and associated logic path routing)
- Layout design for reliability (ie. EM, IR, etc…)
- Design to optimize for parasitic layout effects (ie. matching, reliability, proximity effects, etc…)
- Familiarity in design for porting techniques
- Full custom analog layout design tool: Custom Compiler (or equivalent)
- Verification tools: ICV, Star-RCXT, PERC (or equivalent)
Experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and/or Automotive applications is also helpful
Accustomed to working in a cross-functional, globally diverse environment and at all levels of an organization
Available to travel worldwide

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.
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Benefits

At Synopsys, innovation is driven by our incredible team around the world. We feel honored to work alongside such talented and passionate individuals who choose to make a difference here every day. We're proud to provide the comprehensive benefits and rewards that our team truly deserves.

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Competitive salaries.

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