# Validation / Verification Eng, Staff Engineer

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Nepean, Ontario
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $93,000-$139,000
**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, Staff Engineer at Synopsys.

You have built a career designing and validating hardware systems that must perform reliably in production environments. Your experience has taught you that schematic correctness is only the beginning; layout decisions determine whether signal integrity holds under real operating conditions.

At Synopsys, you will validate memory interface IP where timing margins are measured in picoseconds and your board-level engineering directly determines product quality and customer success.

### Responsibilities

- Design, layout, and validate printed circuit boards in Cadence Allegro for memory interface IP characterization and customer reference implementations

- Perform signal integrity analysis using S-parameters, eye diagrams, and crosstalk simulations to verify performance across multi-gigabit interfaces

- Debug hardware systems using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and protocol analyzers to isolate root causes across silicon, firmware, layout, and test configurations

- Conduct design reviews with cross-functional teams to establish best practices for routing, power distribution, and design constraint compliance

- Execute root cause analysis on validation failures to determine whether issues originate from silicon behavior, board design, or environmental conditions

### The Impact You Will Have

- Your board designs will provide the validation infrastructure for Synopsys memory IP deployed in automotive, mobile, and data center customer applications

- Your signal integrity analysis will inform design guidelines that reduce customer design iterations and accelerate time to market

- Your validation findings will provide critical feedback to silicon design teams, ensuring alignment between simulated and measured performance

- Your technical reviews will establish quality standards for layout evaluation and early detection of design issues

- Your diagnostic capabilities will reduce bring-up cycle times and expedite IP delivery to customers

- Your reference designs will serve as integration templates for customers implementing Synopsys IP in production systems

### Requirements

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

- 6-8+ years of hardware design and validation experience focused on high-speed digital and mixed-signal systems

- Expert-level proficiency in Cadence Allegro for schematic capture, PCB layout, and constraint-driven design

- Comprehensive understanding of signal integrity principles including S-parameters, impedance control, crosstalk, intersymbol interference, and return loss

- Demonstrated experience debugging hardware using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and protocol analyzers

- Working knowledge of communication interfaces including JTAG, I2C, SPI, and UART, with understanding of routing requirements and protocol-level diagnostics

### Benefits

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

## Skills

### Required
- Cadence Allegro
- signal integrity analysis
- S-parameters
- impedance control
- crosstalk
- intersymbol interference
- return loss
- logic analyzers
- oscilloscopes
- protocol analyzers
- JTAG
- I2C
- SPI
- UART

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