Staff Engineer - Memory Design

Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

Staff Memory Design Engineer 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 years in the analog and mixed-signal trenches, designing memory circuits that have to work across voltage corners, temperature extremes, and process variations without a second chance. You know that an SRAM bitcell is not just six transistors on a page, it is a tradeoff between read stability, write margin, leakage, and area, and you have made those calls enough times to know which knob to turn when a design is not closing. You think in terms of transistor-level behavior, not just simulation results. When a memory fails at a corner, you do not just re-run SPICE, you go back to the schematic, check your layout parasitics, and figure out what actually broke. You have worked closely with layout teams, and you understand that a good floorplan saves you three weeks of iteration later. You are comfortable owning a memory block from architecture through tapeout. You can sit with a compiler team and explain why your bitcell needs a specific routing constraint, then turn around and review a layout with a physical design engineer without losing context. At Synopsys, you will design embedded memories that ship in our IP portfolio and power chips across the industry.

Design and develop embedded CMOS memories including single-port SRAM, dual-port SRAM, register files, and ROM for Synopsys IP products Own circuit architecture and transistor-level implementation for ultra-high-speed, ultra-low-power, or high-density memory configurations Perform schematic entry, SPICE simulation, layout planning, and supervise physical layout execution through to final verification Develop and verify bitcells, define layout rules, and drive layout design and parasitic extraction closure with the physical design team Interface with CAD teams to integrate memory designs into compiler automation flows and generate EDA models for customer use Collaborate with frontend engineers to define and validate full verification flows including timing, power, and functional models Mentor junior engineers and lead technical aspects of memory design projects from concept to delivery The Impact You Will Have Your memory designs will ship as part of Synopsys IP offerings used by semiconductor companies worldwide in high-volume production chips The bitcells and architectures you develop will define performance, power, and area benchmarks for next-generation embedded memory IP Your layout planning and verification rigor will reduce tapeout risk and speed time to market for memory compiler releases The automation flows you help define will enable faster, more reliable memory generation for customers across process nodes Your technical mentorship will build design capability within the team and raise the quality bar for future memory products The tradeoffs you make between speed, power, and density will directly influence customer adoption and competitiveness in the IP market Your collaboration with CAD and frontend teams will improve tooling, models, and verification coverage across the memory IP portfolio What You'll Need Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical field Deep hands-on experience with CMOS memory circuit design including SRAM, register files, or ROM Proficiency with circuit simulation tools such as HSPICE, Spectre, or similar SPICE-based simulators Strong understanding of memory layout design, parasitic extraction, and layout verification tools like