# Silicon Validation Lead, Principal Engineer

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $193200-$289800
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Silicon Validation Lead, Principal Engineer to join our team at Synopsys. As a key member of our Enterprise SerDes R&D team, you will lead silicon validation of IP functionality and performance, ensuring alignment with architectural intent. You will also support hardware bring-up and firmware integration for early product-version characterization.

Responsibilities:

- Lead silicon validation of IP functionality and performance

- Support hardware bring-up and firmware integration for early product-version characterization

- Drive root-cause analysis, workarounds, and fixes for issues uncovered during characterization

- Manage a dedicated validation effort in parallel with characterization activities

- Validate sim-to-silicon performance of algorithms, impairments, and key metrics

- Provide feedback to system teams for hardware-correlated models and performance tuning

- Develop improvements to SerDes algorithms and configurations to address performance gaps

- Incorporate learnings from customer evaluation boards into future developments

- Review firmware regression tests for repeatability, drift, and robustness

- Support customer bring-up and drive resolution of silicon debug issues

- Communicate findings to Platform Architects and Product Owners for continuous platform improvement

Requirements:

- BSc or MSc in Electrical or Computer Engineering

- 10+ years of experience in silicon validation, high-speed interfaces, and system-level performance analysis

- Expertise in SerDes design and validation, including PCIe/Ethernet protocols

- Strong knowledge of signal integrity, equalization, coding, and CDR architectures

- Hands-on experience with lab validation, debug tools, and sim-to-silicon correlation

- Familiarity with firmware integration and regression testing methodologies

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits

- Competitive salaries

- Annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses

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## Skills

### Required
- SerDes design and validation
- PCIe/Ethernet protocols
- signal integrity
- equalization
- coding
- CDR architectures
- lab validation
- debug tools
- sim-to-silicon correlation
- firmware integration
- regression testing methodologies

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