Senior Applications Engineer - SISW - MG

Company: Mentor Graphics
Location: Fremont
Posted on: October 15, 2020

Job Description:

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Company: SISW - MG

Job Title: Sr. Applications Engineer - 213973

Job Location: USA - CA - Fremont

Job Category: Sales

Are you ready to build a career

in a rapidly growing and constantly innovating Electronic Design Automation

(EDA) industry? Do you enjoy working with cutting edge technology and solving the

most challenging and demanding problems of the new decade? Are you interested

in working across a range of areas from application engineering support and

management, verification and validation of complex semiconductor ICs, system

testing, and beyond? If so, Mentor, A Siemens Business could be the place for

you!

Job Description:

With a long term legacy of

success, innovation and customer awards, Mentor, A Siemens Business is the

world's largest provider of Digital Software to the semiconductor industry. We

enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more

cost-effectively. Our innovative products and solutions help engineers conquer

design challenges in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design.

We have a unique company culture. With its corporate headquarters in

Wilsonville, Oregon and market dominance in the Americas and other continents

around the world, we value ethical action in all of our endeavors. Integrity is

a critical component of who we are and what we do. We also value truthful

communication. We strive to build trusting relationships with our employees,

customers, and partners which have a positive influence in creating winning

results. Recognition for individual and team achievement at Mentor is regularly

awarded. We never forget that it's the hard work and dedication of our people

that wins our company recognition with our customers and within our industry.

Working for Mentor, A Siemens Business is working for the leader in its class.

Our employees are self-motivated and have come to expect competent leadership

from our managers and executives.

This Applications Engineer (AE)

position delivers technical expertise for Advance Functional Verification of digital,

mixed-signal, and analog IC chip designs based on Mentors DVT products and

services. It provides support for both pre-sales and post-sales assessment of

customer needs as well as quick implementation/execution of the solution.

You'll work on cutting edge technology working side by side with our customers

in close collaboration with R&D and marketing in a cross-functional,

interdependent environment. This is an ideal position for candidates who like

to strategize, interact with and influence others, possess strong design and/or

verification background, requiring both in depth knowledge of HDL and HVL, as

well as strong scripting skills for writing test programs and tooling to meet

customer needs.

Responsibilities:

• 
  
  
• Provide technical leadership in the sales and
  
  support of a wide range to Advance Functional Verification technologies
  
  for our leading edge customers
  
• Integrates DVT products and services (at the
  
  block/chip/system level) and ensures expected behavior in customer's
  
  environments
  
  
  
  • 
    
    
  • Perform assessments of customer environments
    
    and requirements, providing expertise on topics such as: Verification
    
    planning, Testbench development using SV/UVM methodologies, Advance Functional
    
    verification and modeling of digital/mixed-signal ASICs and SoCs, Failure
    
    analysis and resolution, Coverage analysis, RTL/Gate-simulations, Regression
    
    debug and other flow/infrastructure development and testing
    
    
    
    • 
      
      
    • Accountable for the strategy creation, uncovering,
      
      scoping, and technical validity of the solutions to achieve the customer's
      
      design and verification objectives
      
    • Keeps other technical peers (country wide)
      
      informed of new and emerging technologies, share best practices and information
      
      
    • Become a trusted advisor to customer's business
      
      problems and eventually earns the trust to influence customer's decision
      
      process and business objectives
      
    • Articulate customers technical needs and
      
      requirements to product engineering, influence and shape product direction
      
      
    • Deliver ongoing customer training classes and
      
      consulting related to advance verification topics, as well as assist in driving
      
      the adoption of these into customer design and verification process,
      
      participate in developing technical white papers, attend local and
      
      regional technical seminars and technology conferences to educate and
      
      promote DVT solutions and network with attendees
      
    • Mentor and/or coach junior AEs on the team,
      
      participate in lead roles solicited by management
      
      Travel:
      
      Approximately 25% travel to
      
      various local customer sites.
      
      Skills & Requirements:
      
      
      • 
        
        
      • BS in electrical, computer or electronics engineering,
        
        computer science, or equivalent discipline with 15+ years of verification or
        
        related experience
        
      • MS in electrical or computer engineering,
        
        computer science, or equivalent discipline with 10+ years of verification
        
        or related experience
        
      • Strong background with HDLs (e.g. Verilog,
        
        VHDL), HVLs (e.g. SystemVerilog/UVM, OVM, AVM, Vera, Specman, OOP), System
        
        C and methodologies (e.g. Directed/Constraint Random, UPF, Coverage,
        
        Assertion)
        
        
      • Demonstrated experience with Advance Test Bench
        
        creation and Simulation of complex SoC environments, makefile creation,
        
        use of Python, Perl, C/C++ scripts
        
      • Strong trouble shooting, triage and debugging skills
        
      • Deep knowledge of semiconductor IC industry
        
        ASIC, FPGA, SoC, Memory, Interconnect, CPU architectures, embedded systems
        
      • Ability to work in a fast paced, results
        
        oriented, team environment
        
      • Positive attitude and good communication skills
        
      • Energetic and self-motivated
        
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        Prior leadership roles or experiences
        
        Additional Skills Preferred (but not required):
        
        
        • 
          
          
        • Prior 10+ years Applications engineering
          
          experience is a plus
          
        • Knowledgeable in the areas of Verification IP
          
          protocols e.g. AMBA, USB, ETHERNET, PCIE, DDR, HBM, other
          
          
        • Knowledge and experience in emerging
          
          technologies AI, ML, 5G, Automotive, IoT, Networking and Functional
          
          Safety (FuSa)
          
        • Real Number Modelling (RNM) design, simulation
          
          and measurement experience
          
        • Formal Property Checking, Clock Domain Crossing,
          
          Hardware Emulation and FPGA prototyping methodology
          
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          Prior leadership roles or experiences
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          Organization: Digital Industries
          
          Company: Mentor Graphics Corporation
          
          Experience Level: Experienced Professional
          
          Job Type: Full-time
          
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