# Senior SerDes Platform System Architect

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Porto Salvo, Lisbon District
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: employee
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

You are a senior technical leader in high-speed communication systems with strong experience in SerDes and PHY development. You will provide system-level technical leadership for assigned platforms and high-speed communication solutions, connecting system architecture, technical execution, and signoff readiness to drive stronger technical outcomes.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide system-level technical leadership for assigned platforms and high-speed communication solutions

- Connect system architecture, technical execution, and signoff readiness to drive stronger technical outcomes

- Guide discussions on technical tradeoffs, platform behavior, assumptions, constraints, and risks

- Contribute system- and signoff-informed insight to architecture reviews and key platform decisions

- Strengthen technical ownership, execution predictability, and cross-functional alignment across the product-development flow

**Requirements:**

- M.Sc. or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field

- Strong experience in SerDes, PHY development, or closely related high-speed communication domains

- Strong system-level technical understanding and the ability to connect detailed engineering work to broader platform behavior

- Experience solving complex technical problems across multiple stakeholders and competing constraints

- Strong ability to assess tradeoffs, identify risks, and guide technical decisions with clarity

- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills

- Programming or analysis experience in MATLAB, Python, or similar tools is an advantage

- Experience in PHY analog design or strong technical exposure to analog-design-driven PHY development is highly valued

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans

- Time away programs, including ETO and FTO

- Family support, including maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance

- ESPP, allowing purchase of Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount

- Retirement plans that vary by region and country

- Competitive salaries

## Skills

### Required
- SerDes
- PHY development
- Electrical Engineering
- MATLAB
- Python

### Nice to have
- PHY analog design

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