Layout Design, Staff Engineer

Porto Salvo, Lisbon District, Portugal

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

Category Engineering Hire Type Employee Job ID 7001 Remote Eligible No Date Posted 27/11/2024

We’re looking for a Layout Design Engineer to join our team. On this role you’ll acquire and develop competences in all layout design activities, ranged from layout entry, floor planning verification and quality validations. The focus of our team is developing high speed SerDes physical interface and design all the necessary analog blocks to support it ranging from basic blocks to complex structures that touch the boundary of chip interface.

Key Qualifications:

MSc in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent) with background on transistor level and 4+ years working experience in layout circuit design;
Good knowledge in deep submicron CMOS technologies;
Good judgment in selecting efficient/robust methods and techniques to layout floorplan and validation;
Design for porting (i.e. design to enable ease moving layout across multiple foundry nodes);
Knowledge of signal integrity issues and techniques to mitigate ESD, latchup (i.e. clock/data routes, differential routing, shielding, well distance, substrate biasing);
Familiarity with custom digital layout (i.e. high speed digital paths);
Knowledge of layout effects and design for reliability (i.e. matching, reliability, proximity effects, EM, IR, etc.);
Ability to build productive internal/external working relationships. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise;
Familiarity with UNIX operating systems and IC design tools;
Good written and verbal English language skills.

Required Experience:

Familiarity with layout of analog and mixed signal CMOS circuits;
Contribution to the development of complex layout integrated circuits;
Knowledgeable about signal integrity (ie. clock/data routes, differential routing, shielding);
Implementation of ESD design constraints, latch-up risk mitigation;
Layout design for reliability (ie. EM, IR, etc…);
Design to optimize for parasitic layout effects (ie. matching, reliability, proximity effects, etc…).

Preferred Experience

Knowledge on Synopsys EDA tools;
Familiar with Unix and scripting languages (TCL, Python);

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 digital blocks, 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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