RTL Design Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering
In short
Synopsys is looking for a senior RTL Design Engineer with a PhD or MSc and significant experience in FinFET technologies and high-speed circuit design for memory, SerDes, and D2D interfaces. The role involves developing novel transceiver architectures, optimizing circuit performance, and collaborating across teams to ensure design quality. This is an on-site position in Boxborough, Massachusetts.
Responsibilities
- Reviewing UCIe and other D2D standards to develop novel transceiver architectures and sub-block specifications.
- Investigating and developing circuit architectures that address architectural bottlenecks and lead to revolutionary improvements in power, area, and performance targets.
- Collaborating across geography, project, and department teams to streamline design and verification strategies, ensuring overall design quality, efficiency, and performance.
- Overseeing PHY level physical layout to minimize the effect of parasitics, device stress, and process variation.
- Presenting and reviewing simulation data from internal project teams, and presenting results externally at industry panels or customer reviews.
- Documenting design features and test plans, consulting on the overall electrical characterization of the D2D IP product, analyzing customer silicon data for design enhancements, and proposing solutions for post-silicon design updates.
Requirements
- PhD with 8+ years, or MSc with 10+ years of practical analog IC design experience.
- Experience with FinFET technologies and in-depth familiarity with transistor-level circuit design.
- Extensive design experience with sub-circuits relevant to Memory/SerDes/D2D, including receive equalizers, DAC-based transmitters, and high-speed clocking circuits.
- Knowledge of ESD issues, custom digital design, and analog/digital interactions for optimizing circuit performance.
- Proficiency with tools for schematic entry, physical layout, design verification, and SPICE simulators, as well as scripting languages like TCL, Perl, C, Python, and MATLAB.
Desired Qualifications
- Highly experienced IC Design Engineer with a passion for pushing the boundaries of technology.
- Deep understanding of sub-circuits relevant to Memory, SerDes, and D2D.
- Proficient in designing receive equalizers like CTLE, DFE, and FFE, and expertise in DAC-based transmitters, ADC-based receivers, and DSP equalization.
- Exceptional skills in high-speed clocking circuits such as PLL, VCO, ILO, DLL, and phase interpolator.
- Familiar with duty cycle correction, clock phase correction circuits, and digitally assisted analog calibration loops.
- Sound CMOS design fundamentals.
- Experience with CMOS tape-outs.
- Thorough knowledge of high-speed SerDes, Memory, D2D IO, and the associated circuit and fabrication issues that impact customer use-cases directly.
- Well-versed in design for reliability, layout effects, and the tools for schematic entry, physical layout, and design verification.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills.
- Innovative thinker with excellent problem-solving skills, capable of working independently on new or special assignments with minimal oversight.
- Ability to implement strategic goals with a direct impact on departmental results.
- Ability to communicate effectively with parties within and outside of their functional area.
- Work on significant and unique issues often requires the evaluation of intangibles.
Benefits
- 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.
- Retirement plans that vary by region and country.
- Competitive salaries.
- Annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses may be eligible.
- Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits.
Skills
TCLPerlPythonMATLABCSPICE
#Hardware Engineering#RTL Design
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$138,000–208,000 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Boxborough, United States
Qualification
Master, Doctoral
Applicants
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