Senior Verification Manager, SERDES PHY

Synopsys Inc; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Financial benefits package

Wellness programs

Job summary

Synopsys Inc is seeking an experienced verification lead for SERDES PHY IP, a role essential for ensuring high-performance SoCs meet top quality standards. You will lead a skilled team on mixed-signal verification, working with advanced methodologies, and directly addressing technical challenges.

Your background in ASIC verification and team leadership will be pivotal as you shape methodologies, coach engineers, and engage with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable product releases.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on ASIC mixed-signal verification experience.
• 3+ years leading verification engineers or equivalent team lead scope.
• Strong command of SystemVerilog and UVM.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of verification engineers on SERDES PHY mixed-signal verification.
• Directly debug regressions and customer escalations.
• Define UVM and mixed-signal co-simulation methodologies.

Skills

ASIC mixed-signal verification experience

SystemVerilog

UVM

Leadership

Debugging

Tools

Shell

Perl

Python

C++

Job description

We Are

Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.

You Are

You have spent a decade-plus in mixed-signal verification and you know that SERDES PHY is where theory meets silicon reality, where a clean testplan does not guarantee clean bring-up, and where the difference between a release and a respin often lives in one corner case nobody caught at 100°C. You are technical first, manager second. You can walk into a regression triage meeting, pull up waveforms, spot the PLL lock issue or the CDR drift that three engineers missed, and coach them through root cause without taking over their keyboard.

Leading people matters to you, but not at the expense of staying credible. You review UVM environments, you read coverage reports, you understand what makes a mixed-signal co-sim model trustworthy versus theatrical. When a customer escalation lands on your desk, you do not delegate it, you get into the debug alongside your team because that is how you stay sharp and that is how they learn.

You have run teams before. You know how to hire, grow senior leads, set priorities when everything is on fire, and say no when a feature request will compromise sign‑off quality. At Synopsys, you will lead verification for flagship SERDES PHY IP that powers high-performance SoCs, and you will do it with your hands still in the work.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and grow a distributed team of verification engineers and senior technical leads working on SERDES PHY mixed-signal verification across UVM simulation, co-simulation, emulation, and lab validation
• Debug priority regressions, customer escalations, and silicon correlation issues directly, working in SystemVerilog, UVM, co-sim environments, and firmware bring‑up flows
• Own verification sign‑off quality and release readiness for SERDES PHY IP, including testplan review, coverage analysis, checker effectiveness, and release evidence documentation
• Define and evolve UVM and mixed‑signal co‑simulation methodology, regression standards, reuse strategy, and automation frameworks using Shell, Perl, Python, and C++
• Partner daily with analog design, digital design, firmware, and applications teams to resolve technical blockers, align on test strategy, and close coverage gaps
• Represent verification in program reviews, customer technical engagements, and cross‑functional release planning meetings
• Drive automation and AI‑assisted regression triage where it measurably improves throughput, debug time, or coverage closure

The Impact You Will Have

• Ensure SERDES PHY IP releases meet sign‑off quality for deployment in high‑performance SoCs shipping to customers across automotive, data center, and AI markets
• Reduce time to root cause on mixed‑signal bugs by building a team that knows how to read waveforms, correlate models to silicon, and close issues without escalation loops
• Establish verification methodology and reuse standards that scale across PCIe, Ethernet, and future high‑speed serial IP families
• Grow senior verification engineers into technical leads who can own testplans, drive coverage closure, and mentor others through complex debug
• Improve regression efficiency and triage speed through targeted automation, better VIP integration, and smarter use of co‑simulation and emulation platforms
• Strengthen customer confidence in Synopsys SERDES IP by delivering clean releases, fast escalation response, and credible technical partnership during bring‑up
• Shape the technical direction of mixed‑signal verification at Synopsys by contributing to tool selection, flow improvements, and cross‑team best practices

What You’ll Need

• 10+ years of hands‑on ASIC mixed‑signal verification experience with recent work in the last 3 to 5 years on debug, environment development, or sign‑off
• 3+ years leading verification engineers or equivalent team lead scope, including hiring, performance management, and technical mentorship
• Deep experience with PCIe and/or Ethernet SERDES, high‑speed serial links, DSP blocks, and clock/data recovery circuits
• Strong command of SystemVerilog, UVM, VIP integration, and coverage‑driven verification methodology
• Proven ability in mixed‑signal verification flows including co‑simulation, analog/digital modeling, and lab or silicon correlation
• Scripting proficiency in Shell, Perl, Python, or C++ with the ability to review and contribute to automation infrastructure
• Credible technical judgment under schedule pressure, you know when to push for more coverage and when to ship with documented risk. Experience with TX/RX PMA, common‑mode PLLs, firmware bring‑up, or rate and power state flows is a plus. Distributed team leadership with hands‑on technical engagement is a strong differentiator.

Who You Are

• You can step into a regression triage, pull up a waveform in Verdi or DVE, and guide an engineer to the root cause without doing the work for them
• You know the difference between a testplan that looks complete and one that actually covers the corner cases that break in the lab, and you push back when sign‑off evidence is thin
• You are comfortable switching context between a hiring conversation, a firmware debug session, a customer call, and a coverage review, all in the same afternoon
• You build teams that stay technical, you hire people who want to understand the PHY, not just run regressions, and you create space for them to grow into senior leads
• You do not need perfect information to make a call, you work with what you have, align with design and firmware, and move forward without creating downstream chaos
• You care about automation and tools, but only when they solve a real problem, you will write a Python script to fix a triage bottleneck and you will kill a dashboard nobody uses

The Team You’ll Be Part Of

Your recruiter will share more about the team structure and mission during the interview process.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non‑monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.