Test & Validation Engineering, Staff Engineer

at  Synopsys

Come and be part of a collaborative team environment at SYNOPSYS that innovates and develops the latest IP solutions that enable the way the world designs.
As a SERDES Silicon Validation Engineer working in a lab environment, you will be responsible for product qualification and compliance to supported standards/specifications. You will be part of an R&D team developing high-speed SerDes PHY’s. We are looking for an 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.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Master’s degree in electrical or Electronics Engineering with 3+ years or Bachelor’s with 5+ years of direct industry experience preferred.
• Worked in a lab environment.
• Good Analog and Mixed-Signal circuit understanding.
• Some experience with scripting and/or algorithm development to process data.
• Understanding and experience with Matlab.
• Good debugging/troubleshooting skills.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• 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.

• 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 circuit limitations in a testing and characterization environment
• Test the product against target specifications
• Research and specify test equipment and components to support defined test plans and methodologies
• Creating test reports
• Creating test boards and hardware solutions to support product validation
• Debugging of electronic circuits; investigating product non-conformance.
• And any other relevant tasks.