Senior Silicon Validation Engineer

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.

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

As a Silicon Validation Engineer working in a lab environment, you will be taking care of product qualification and compliance of different electrical standards and protocol specifications. You will be part of an R&D team developing high-speed, mixed-signal IP designs. We are looking for a seasoned 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.

Duties:

• 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 its limitations in a characterization and/or silicon validation environment;
• Test the product against target standards and specifications.
• Research and specify test equipment and components to support defined test plans and methodologies.
• Creating test reports;
• Developing test boards and hardware solutions to support product validation;
• Debug of electronic circuits; investigate product non-conformance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience (post-silicon validation, lab instrumentation, characterization and debug).
• Master degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
• Passionate to work in a lab environment.
• Solid Analog and Mixed-Signal circuit knowledge.
• Software programming proficiency.
• Expertise and experience programming with MATLAB and/or Python.
• Debugging/troubleshooting skills.

Other assets include:

• 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.

Synopsys Canada ULC values the diversity of our workforce. We are committed to provide access & opportunity to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodation to individuals throughout the recruitment and employment process. Should you require an accommodation, please contact hr-help-canada@synopsys.com.