Description
Job Overview
As a System Validation Engineer at Synopsys, you will play a crucial role in validating high-speed hardware systems, ensuring signal integrity and standards compliance. You will work on intricate tasks such as chip architecture, circuit design, and verification to ensure the efficiency and reliability of semiconductor products.
Job Description
You bring proven experience validating high-speed hardware systems where signal integrity and standards compliance are critical. Your work with SERDES interfaces and laboratory instrumentation has taught you that successful validation requires technical rigor and systematic methodology. When issues arise, you isolate root causes through disciplined analysis.
Key Responsibilities
- Validate high-speed SERDES IP designs including PCI Express and Ethernet through electrical and system-level testing on prototype hardware
- Execute validation test plans using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, BER testers, and TDR equipment to verify signal integrity and standards compliance
- Debug complex analog and digital circuit behavior on prototype boards using schematics and layouts
- Develop test automation frameworks and analysis tools using Python, MATLAB, or C
- Support product certification and conduct interoperability validation with silicon from key manufacturers
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve validation findings and optimize IP performance
- Document results, improve test methodologies, and provide technical guidance to junior engineers
The Impact You Will Have
- Ensure Synopsys SERDES IP meets industry certification standards before customer delivery
- Improve validation efficiency and measurement consistency across the global prototyping organization through automation tools
- Identify design issues early, reducing costly respins and accelerating time to market
- Provide customers confidence in IP reliability across diverse system configurations
- Strengthen correlation between simulation models and silicon behavior for future IP development
- Enable high-speed connectivity powering AI infrastructure, data centers, telecommunications, and automotive systems
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or related discipline
- Experience conducting hardware validation using laboratory instrumentation including oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers
- Proficiency reading electrical schematics and PCB layouts
- Strong programming skills in MATLAB, Python, or C for test automation and analysis
- Proven debugging capabilities and systematic problem-solving methodology
- Experience with high-speed circuits, SERDES standards (PCI Express, Ethernet), or RF theory (transmission lines, S-parameters) is highly valued
- Familiarity with FPGA development (Verilog/VHDL) or serial protocols (JTAG, I2C, SPI) is beneficial
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans
- Time away programs
- Family support
- ESPP
- Retirement plans
- Competitive salaries