Staff R&D Engineer

General Information

Job Title Staff R&D Engineer Job ID 6570 Country India City Bangalore Date Posted 23-Sep-2024 Job Category Engineering Job Subcategory R&D Engineering Hire Type Employee Remote Eligible No

Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

Job Overview

Pattern Analytics is a new exciting field at the intersection of Electronic Design Automation, Data Science and Machine Learning, applied to Semiconductor Design and Silicon Manufacturing flows.  

The role of Pattern Analytics Staff Engineer combines individual technical contributions with engineering teamwork to bring innovative computational solutions to market, from prototype to full product implementation. This role provides a unique opportunity to apply leading edge Machine Learning and Generative-AI to create entire new families of EDA tools for Physical Design and beyond.

 

Responsibilities and Duties

• Work with a multi-disciplinary engineering team to identify new methodological approaches to layout analysis and define algorithmic solutions
• Develop software modules and shared libraries throughout a product life cycle, from prototype to customer release
• Develop and implement Machine Learning solutions for Pattern Analytics tools
• Provide engineering-level technical documentation for the supported products

 

Qualifications

• Ph.D. , M.S., B.S. in EE or CS or related fields with strong computational and numerical analysis concentration or specialization.
• Experience in Electronic Design Automation, and/or VLSI Physical Design Verification, and/or Mask Data Generation.
• 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

 

• Database Development Skills, for instance:
  • 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:
  1. Advanced Python 3, Javascript, SQL are required
  2. C++ and/or Java are a plus
  3. Asynchronous programming
  4. Applications/Libraries for Data Visualization and Machine Learning
  5. Application/Libraries for Computational Geometry and VLSI Layout manipulation

 

Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.