ASIC Digital Design, Staff Engineer

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

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 5108 Remote Eligible No Date Posted 23/08/2024

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.

Digital IP Design, Staff Engineer

Seeking a highly motivated and innovative digital design engineer with knowledge of DDR and wide-spectrum knowledge of generic IP design methodology.

The candidate would be working as part of a highly experienced DDR controller design and verification team, targeting the current and next generation DDR technology, such as HBM4, DDR5, LPDDR5. Solid theoretical and practical background in AXI, CHI, CRYPTO and RAS is a solid plus.

The position offers an excellent opportunity to work with a professional team of digital engineers responsible for delivering high-end designs from specification development to performing functional design, performance tests down to successful IP releases.

The controller IP development is very dynamic and provides an endless list of challenges. This work is very challenging, not only given the constant technological changes but also given the ownership and the need to charter unknown waters.

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Key Qualifications

MSEE plus a minimum of 5 years of digital design experience in the industry
Study standard specifications published by JEDEC, define micro architecture at block level based on IP architecture
Work on RTL design based on predefined coding style, SVA is also included, clean RTL check violations in lint, CDC, DFT and synthesis
Work with verification team to debug and fix RTL issues
Good knowledge of back-end synthesis tools DC/PT is required
Must be self-motivated, proactive, and able to balance good design quality while meeting tight deadlines
May guide more junior peers with aspects of their job. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise
Good communication skills for interacting between different design groups and customer support teams are required

Preferred Experience

Has strong desire to learn and explore new technologies
Demonstrates good analysis and problem-solving skills
Knowledge in interface technologies such as DDR, HBM, PCIe is a plus
Knowledge in AMBA protocols is a plus
good experience is co-working with UVM-based verification is a plus
Scripting experience in Shell, Perl, Python and TCL is a plus
Interacting with Application Engineers for customer support.

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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