Digital Verification, Staff Engineer

Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

Engineering

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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

We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative digital design engineer with knowledge of ASIC development flow. The candidate would be working as part of a highly experienced mixed-signal design and verification team, targeting the current and next generation PAM-based SerDes products.
Strong theoretical and practical background in high-speed serializer and data recovery circuits is a strong plus. The position offers an excellent opportunity to work with an expert team of digital and mixed-signal engineers responsible for delivering high-end mixed-signal designs from specification development to performing functional and performance tests on prototype test-chips.

The PHY IP development is very dynamic and provides an endless list of challenges. The candidate would have an initial training done by the top experts in the field as well as continuous on the job training and assignments. The work is very challenging, not only given the constant technological changes but also given the ownership and the need to charter unknown waters.

Key Qualifications:

BSEE or MSEE plus a minimum of 4 years of digital design and verification experience in the industry
Good experience in writing block-level test-cases including constrained directed random tests
Must be familiar with Verilog and VCS. Good knowledge of back-end synthesis tools DC/PT is required
Must have knowledge of digital design methodologies, ATE production testing, DFT insertion, Synthesis constraints and flows
Scripting experience in Shell, Perl, Python and TCL is a plus
Good theoretical and practical understanding of digital signal processing and data recovery circuits is required
Good communication skills for interacting between different design groups and customer support teams are required
Must be self-motivated, proactive, and able to balance good design quality while meeting tight deadlines
Resolves issues in creative ways and exercises independent judgment in selecting methods and techniques to obtain solutions
May guide more junior peers with aspects of their job. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise
Must exhibit ability to produce good results as an individual and team contributor

Preferred Experience

RTL coding, modeling of analog blocks, and writing complex system-level test-benches in Verilog
Defining synthesis design constraints and resolving STA issues as well as gate-level simulation failures
Defining Clock/Reset domain crossing design constraints and evaluating violations using CDC/RDC tools
Enhancing and maintaining existing SERDES PHY IPs supporting multiple protocols
Interacting with Application Engineers for customer support and resolving technical issues with Analog and P&R teams.

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.

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.

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.

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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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Health & Wellness

Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans that work for you and your family.
Time Away

In addition to company holidays, we have ETO and FTO Programs.
Family Support

Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and more.
ESPP

Purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24 month look-back.
Retirement Plans

Save for your future with our retirement plans that vary by region and country.
Compensation

Competitive salaries.

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Offer

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