Pre-Silicon Signoff Lead

Our Hardware Engineers at Synopsys are responsible for designing and developing cutting-edge semiconductor solutions. They work on intricate tasks such as chip architecture, circuit design, and verification to ensure the efficiency and reliability of semiconductor products. These engineers play a crucial role in advancing technology and enabling innovations in various industries.

You are a seasoned engineer with deep expertise in high-speed serial communication and transceiver design, blending theoretical rigor with hands-on laboratory proficiency. You thrive in dynamic, cross-disciplinary environments, collaborating with analog, digital, and hardware teams to realize innovative solutions. Your background includes advanced modeling, signal processing, and hardware validation, making you a pivotal contributor to projects involving PCIe and Ethernet protocols.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Collaborating closely with analog, digital, and hardware teams to ensure holistic design and verification coverage.
• Developing and maintaining comprehensive simulation and verification plans for IP, aligning with reliability and performance targets.
• Reviewing execution against verification plans through regular meetings with multiple verification teams (analog, cosim, DV, GLS, formal, emulation).
• Establishing, monitoring, and reporting on key verification metrics such as functional, code, and assertion coverage.
• Coordinating with Firmware & Algorithms Lead and Digital FW Developers to develop hardware regression plans for successive FW releases.
• Delivering high-quality verification collateral including test plans, test cases, coverage reports, and sign-off documentation.

The Impact You Will Have:

• Advance high-speed connectivity for enterprise and hyperscale applications worldwide.
• Ensure robust and scalable solutions for a diverse global customer base.
• Drive innovation in SerDes design, modeling, and validation methodologies.
• Accelerate time-to-market for cutting-edge silicon products.
• Empower customers by delivering expert technical support and troubleshooting.
• Strengthen Synopsys’ reputation as an industry leader in high-performance connectivity IP.
• Enable successful silicon implementation by catching issues early through rigorous simulation and verification.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration that enhances product quality and reliability.

What You'll Need:

• MSc or PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, with 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Deep expertise in high‑speed protocols,PCIe and Ethernet.
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog, object‑oriented verification, UVM/VMM/OVM, and assertion‑based verification, coverage closure expertise.
• Strong scripting/programming: Python, TCL, Perl, C/C++.
• In-depth knowledge of high-speed analog and digital design principles.
• Familiarity with verification flows: analog, cosimulation, digital verification, GLS, formal methods, and emulation.
• Proven leadership: testbench architecture, planning, cross‑site collaboration, and mentoring.

The Team You'll Be a Part Of: You'll join a world-class engineering team focused on developing, verifying, and delivering industry-leading high-speed connectivity IP. Our team is a blend of domain experts in analog and digital design, modeling, and hardware validation, working collaboratively to push boundaries in SerDes and transceiver technologies. Together, we drive innovation, tackle complex challenges, and ensure our products empower customers to achieve their goals in enterprise, data center, and networking applications.