# Analog Design, Sr Staff Engineer

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Mississauga
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $122,000-$183,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

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.

As a Sr Staff Engineer, you will be part of the Interface IP group in Mississauga, ON, a cross-functional team of analog and mixed-signal designers working on high-speed SerDes IP in the latest FinFET process nodes. The team operates with a full suite of industry-standard IC design tools supplemented by custom in-house automation supported by an experienced CAD and software team.

Key Responsibilities:

- Review SerDes standards and define transceiver architectures and analog sub-block specifications for high-speed NRZ and PAM4 IP.

- Develop advanced circuit solutions to improve power, area, speed, and silicon robustness.

- Collaborate with analog, digital, and layout teams to ensure efficient design, verification, and implementation.

- Guide physical layout to minimize parasitics, device stress, and process variation.

- Define and execute design and verification strategies using industry-standard simulation tools.

- Present technical results and design tradeoffs to internal teams, customers, and stakeholders.

- Document design features, test plans, and results clearly and accurately.

- Support electrical characterization, analyze customer silicon data, and contribute to post-silicon improvements.

- Assist the system team and develop automation to improve productivity and quality.

Impact:

- Drive innovation in high-speed analog and mixed-signal design for next-generation connectivity, computing, networking, and AI.

- Influence SerDes architecture and improve scalability, performance, and power efficiency across the IP portfolio.

- Strengthen product quality and reliability through rigorous design, verification, and documentation.

- Mentor team members and promote a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

- Help deliver integrated solutions that meet demanding customer requirements and support successful post-silicon results.

Requirements:

- M.A.Sc. with 8+ years or PhD with 6+ years of relevant analog/mixed-signal IC design experience.

- Strong background in circuit/system modeling, analog design, DSP, and communications theory.

- Proven experience with Multi-Gbps SerDes architectures, including TX, RX, equalizers, samplers, drivers, serializers/deserializers, PLLs, DLLs, bandgaps, regulators, oscillators, ADCs, and DACs.

- Experience with analog/digital co-design, calibration, adaptation, and timing handoff.

- Familiarity with ESD design, custom high-speed digital logic, and reliability considerations such as EM, IR, aging, and self-heating.

- Proficiency in schematic entry, physical layout, SPICE simulation, and Verilog-A modeling.

- Strong understanding of jitter, noise, signal integrity, parasitics, crosstalk, and design-for-reliability principles.

- Excellent communication, documentation, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.

Team:

You will join the Interface IP group in Mississauga, ON, a cross-functional team of analog and mixed-signal designers working on high-speed SerDes IP in the latest FinFET process nodes.

Rewards and Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings.

## Skills

### Required
- analog circuit design
- high-speed SerDes architectures
- circuit/system modeling
- analog design
- DSP
- communications theory
- ESD design
- custom high-speed digital logic
- reliability considerations
- SPICE simulation
- Verilog-A modeling
- jitter
- noise
- signal integrity
- parasitics
- crosstalk
- design-for-reliability principles

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