# Validation / Verification Eng, Manager

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Nepean, Ontario
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123000-$185000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

We are seeking a Validation / Verification Eng, Manager to lead a lab team validating memory IP that ships in products worldwide.

You will lead first silicon bring-up and validation for DDR6, DDR5, LPDDR6/X, LPDDR5/5X, MRDIMM, and HBM test chips.

Responsibilities:

- Lead first silicon bring-up and validation for various memory interfaces

- Perform electrical characterization including eye diagrams, jitter measurements, timing margins, and signal integrity analysis

- Drive debug and root cause analysis of silicon, firmware, and board issues using lab instrumentation and cross-functional collaboration

- Build automated validation frameworks using Python and C/C++ to improve test efficiency and data collection

- Lead multilayer PCB design for characterization platforms and customer evaluation kits

- Manage team hiring, staffing, resource allocation, morale and audit preparation while growing technical capability

- Work alongside cross-functional teams to weigh business impacts and make critical decisions

The Impact You Will Have:

- Ensure Synopsys memory interface IP products meet performance and reliability standards before customer deployment

- Implement efficiency improvements and process changes to a team of 20+ staff across 3+ labs

- Reduce time to market by building reusable test infrastructure that accelerates validation across IP generations

- Provide silicon-proven characterization data that gives customers confidence to integrate Synopsys IP

- Identify and resolve issues early, preventing costly re-spins and customer escalations

- Grow a high-performing validation team in Nepean that becomes a center of excellence for memory IP

- Influence design decisions by feeding back real-world silicon behavior to architecture teams

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent technical field

- 8+ years of hands-on silicon validation experience with memory interfaces such as DDR, LPDDR, or HBM

- 3+ years managing engineering teams, including hiring and resource allocation

- Deep understanding of JEDEC specifications, jitter analysis, timing margins, and electrical characterization

- Proficiency in Python and C for test automation and hardware validation scripting

- Experience with ATE testers such as Teradyne, LTX/Credence, Advantest

- Board design experience including multilayer PCB development, experience with automotive qualification standards or reliability testing is a plus

- Experience in scheduling, event planning with vendors of all sorts

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- silicon validation
- memory interfaces
- DDR
- LPDDR
- HBM
- Python
- C/C++
- ATE testers
- multilayer PCB design

### Nice to have
- automotive qualification standards
- reliability testing
- event planning

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