Job Description and Requirements

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, 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. Senior IP Firmware Design Engineer Seeking a highly motivated and innovative digital design engineer with knowledge of IP Firmware development flows. The candidate would be working as a part of a highly experienced mixed-signal design and verification team, targeting the current and next generation NRZ and PAM-based SerDes products. Theoretical and practical background in high-speed serializer and data recovery circuits is a definite plus. The position offers an excellent opportunity to work with an expert team of digital and mixed-signal engineers delivering high-end mixed-signal designs from specification development to performing functional and performance tests on prototype test-chips. 

Key Qualifications

• BSEE or MSEE plus a minimum of 3 years of digital design, verification and validation experience in the industry
• Experience with structured firmware development, verification and documentation process
• Experience with digital design, simulation and debug using Verilog and VCS
• Experience with Silicon Bring up using Firmware and SDK APIs.
• Demonstrated experience executing projects from start to completion.
• 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

Preferred Experience

• Basic knowledge of SerDes standards is an asset
• Scripting experience (Shell/Python) is an asset
• Good organization and communication skills