Synopsys

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.