Principal ASIC Digital Design Engineer

3 weeks ago

Mississauga Ontario CW, Peel region, Canada Synopsys Full time
Category Engineering Hire Type Employee Job ID 6271 Remote Eligible No Date Posted 19/09/2024

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 of logic, 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.


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.

ASIC Digital Design, Principal Engineer


Seeking a highly motivated and innovative digital design engineer with knowledge of ASIC development flow. The candidate would be working as part of an experienced mixed-signal design and verification team, targeting the next generation NRZ and PAM-based SerDes products. Solid theoretical and practical background in high-speed serializer and data recovery circuits is a plus. The position offers an excellent opportunity to work with a veteran team of digital and mixed-signal engineers accountable for delivering high-end mixed-signal designs from specification development to performing functional and performance tests on prototype test-chips. The PHY IP development is dynamic and provides an endless list of challenges. The candidate would have an initial training done by the top experts in the field as well as continuous on the job training and assignments.



Key Qualifications

  • BSEE or MSEE plus a minimum of 10 years of digital design and verification experience in the industry
  • Good experience in writing block-level test-cases including constrained directed random tests
  • Must be familiar with Verilog and VCS. Good knowledge of back-end synthesis tools DC/PT is required
  • Must have knowledge of digital design methodologies, ATE production testing, DFT insertion, Synthesis constraints and flows
  • Scripting experience in Shell, Perl, Python and TCL is a plus
  • Good theoretical and practical knowledge of digital signal processing and data recovery circuits is required
  • Good communication skills for interacting between different design groups and customer support teams are required
  • Must be self-motivated, proactive, and able to use good design quality while meeting tight deadlines
  • Resolves issues in clever ways and exercises impartial judgment in selecting methods and techniques to obtain solutions
  • May guide more junior peers with aspects of their job. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise
  • Must exhibit ability to produce good results as a team contributor


Preferred Experience

  • RTL coding, modeling of analog blocks, and writing complex system-level test-benches in Verilog
  • Defining synthesis design constraints and resolving STA issues as well as gate-level simulation failures
  • Defining Clock/Reset domain crossing design constraints and evaluating violations using CDC/RDC tools
  • Enhancing and maintaining existing SERDES PHY IPs used for multiple protocols
  • Interacting with Application Engineers for customer support and resolving technical issues with Analog and P&R teams


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 team members throughout the recruitment and employment process.

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.

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