Test & Validation Engineering, Staff Engineer

Come and be part of a collaborative team environment at SYNOPSYS that innovates and develops the latest IP solutions that enable the way the world designs.

As a SERDES Silicon Validation Engineer working in a lab environment, you will be responsible for product qualification and compliance to supported standards/specifications. You will be part of an R&D team developing high-speed SerDes PHY's. We are looking for an engineer with theoretical knowledge and practical experience to contribute to the silicon validation lab team. Our R&D test lab contains high-speed test equipment such as: Bit Error Rate Testers, Real Time Oscilloscopes, Sampling Scopes, Vector Network Analyzers and Time Domain Reflectometers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 •    Work with a cross-functional design team of analog designers, systems designers, application engineers, and customers to resolve problems and demonstrate product performance

•    Examine circuit behavior and circuit limitations in a testing and characterization environment

•    Test the product against target specifications

•    Research and specify test equipment and components to support defined test plans and methodologies

•    Creating test reports

•    Creating test boards and hardware solutions to support product validation

•    Debugging of electronic circuits; investigating product non-conformance. 

•    And any other relevant tasks.

Required Skills:

• Master’s degree in electrical or Electronics Engineering with 3+ years or Bachelor’s with 5+ years of direct industry experience preferred.
• Worked in a lab environment.
• Good Analog and Mixed-Signal circuit understanding.
• Some experience with scripting and/or algorithm development to process data.
• Understanding and experience with Matlab.
• Good debugging/troubleshooting skills.

Preferred Skills:

•    Test and debug background of PAM-4 signaling type.

•    Experience with IC Test and Validation of Mixed Signal, ADC/DAC and SerDes test circuits

•    PCB design knowledge.

•    Signal Integrity/Power Integrity knowledge.

•    Experience with tools for schematic entry, and SPICE simulation.

•    Data review, data mining.