Principal Analog Methodology Specialist
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Frontend
In short
Principal Analog Methodology Specialist at Synopsys in Boxborough, MA. Responsible for driving analog and mixed-signal methodology adoption, working with cross-functional teams, and applying AI/ML to circuit optimization. Requires extensive experience in IC design and a strong understanding of silicon IP release requirements.
Responsibilities
- Provide clear ownership for analog and adjacent-domain methodology areas.
- Act as the focal point for customer-driven methodology requirements and integration challenges.
- Be accountable for prioritization, adoption, stakeholder engagement, and execution.
- Improve coordination across product teams and adjacent engineering organizations, including engagement with customers and foundries.
- Support methodology for application-optimized IP and the special-purpose silicon customers are building for specific workloads and system architectures.
- Partner with the automation and AI team to prototype, automate, and apply AI on these flows where it is useful.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field; MSEE or PhD preferred.
- 18-25 years of experience in IC design with a BSEE degree, or 15-18 years with an MSEE or PhD.
- Extensive expertise in analog and mixed-signal methodology, including circuit-to-layout, circuit-to-timing, silicon-to-lab correlation, SI/PI integration, and the workflow gaps between those steps.
- Deep enough knowledge of transistor-level design, CMOS fundamentals, reliability effects, and SPICE to judge whether a methodology will hold for a customer design.
- Experience turning customer methodology requirements into integration solutions.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation to prototype those flows, and the ability to apply AI where it improves them.
- Determine the methods and procedures for new or specialized assignments, and review and may approve the work of others.
- Take on significant and unique issues, including cases where the important factors are not all explicit.
- Use independent judgment to select the methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria needed to achieve critical results.
- Act as the technical lead for customer methodology requirements.
- Champion the methodology and integration solutions that close the workflow gaps those requirements expose.
- Communicate within and outside your function.
- Influence adjacent teams in ambiguous or sensitive situations, and represent the work to executive leadership when it is significant.
Desired Qualifications
- MSEE or PhD preferred.
- Experience with transistor-level simulation, reliability analysis, and static timing analysis (STA).
- Proficient in scripting and automation.
- Apply AI and machine learning to analog circuit optimization.
- Knowledge spans analog and mixed-signal circuits.
- Strong background in silicon IP release requirements.
- Credible with customers, product teams, and foundries.
- Ability to turn methodology strategy into decisions other organizations will adopt.
- Clear communication.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and committed to excellence.
Benefits
- Comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits.
- Total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings.
- Inclusive work culture supporting diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Reasonable accommodations available throughout the recruitment and employment process.
- May be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses.
- Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package.
- Competitive salaries.
- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans.
- ETO and FTO Programs.
- Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance.
- Purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24 month look-back (ESPP).
- Retirement Plans.
- Competitive total rewards package.
Skills
SPICEPythonAIMachine Learning
#Engineering#Analog#Methodology#Specialist
About Synopsys Inc
Smart, Secure Everything—From Silicon to Software Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way we live and work. The Internet of Things. Autonomous cars. Wearables. Smart medical devices. Secure financial services. Machine learning and computer vision. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart, Secure Everything―where devices are getting smarter, everything’s connected, and everything must be secure. Powering this new era of technology are advanced silicon chips, which are made even smarter by the remarkable software that drives them. Synopsys is at…
Company
Synopsys IncJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Salary
US$165,000–247,000 / year
Experience Level
Executive
Locations
Boxborough, United States
Qualification
Bachelor, Master, Doctoral
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