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Senior Staff R&D Engineer focused on EDA, Data Science, and Machine Learning for Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing. Requires strong computational and numerical analysis skills, experience in EDA, VLSI, and practical Machine Learning and Data Science expertise.

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Job Overview

This role will chart a path into a new field at the intersection of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Data Science and Machine Learning, applied to Semiconductor Design and Silicon Manufacturing flows.

The Pattern Analytics Senior Staff Engineer role requires an understanding of the state of the art in EDA, coupled with a creative approach to building products.

Technical skills required for this task will be able to imagine and then create new computational solutions, from prototype to full product implementation. Thus, the successful Pattern Analytics Senior Staff Engineer will work with a multi-disciplinary team to build and test completely new families of EDA products.

Responsibilities And Duties

Develop software modules and shared libraries throughout a product life cycle, from prototype to customer release

Work with a cross-functional teams across several disciplines to identify new approaches to layout analysis and define algorithmic solutions

Implement testing and benchmarking automation for Pattern Analytics tools

Assist in the creation of technical product documentation

Troubleshoot customer issues after deployment and provide solid technical solutions

Qualifications

Ph.D. or MS (with 3-5 years' industry experience) in EE, CS or related engineering fields with strong computational and numerical analysis concentrations.

Experience in Electronic Design Automation, and/or VLSI Physical Design Verification, and/or Mask Data Generation is a plus.

Specific skills in semiconductor design and manufacturing:

Physical design, place and route

DRC checks, DFM checks, Pattern Matching checks, Printability checks

Physical design ECOs, layout fixing and automation

Practical Machine Learning and Data Science (including statistical analysis and modeling)

Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Cleaning

Feature Engineering

Advanced ML (Deep-Learning Architectures, Transformers, etc.) is a plus

Strong Database Development Skills are required. Specifically:

Queries Development and Optimization SQL – filtering, aggregation, sampling

Graph representations, queries/traversal

Multi-DB Query optimization, indices

Server-based database implementation (such as PostgreSQL) and/or embedded database (such as SQLite)

Programming Languages:

Advanced Python 3, Javascript, SQL are required

C++ and/or Java would be a strong plus

Asynchronous programming

Applications/Libraries for Data Visualization and Machine Learning

Application/Libraries for Computational Geometry and VLSI Layout manipulation

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About The Company

Synopsys Inc

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