Senior Director, Digital Design

Job Title

Senior Director, Digital Design

Role Summary

Lead digital design for high-speed die-to-die interconnect ICs within the Silicon Engineering organization. Manage RTL, synthesis, timing closure, DFT, verification, and pre-silicon validation to deliver multi-GHz interconnect IP for AI systems.

Provide technical leadership across teams (analog, physical implementation, system architecture) to meet latency, frequency, and power targets.

Experience Level

Senior — 15+ years of digital design experience with multiple high-speed ASIC tapeouts and at least 5 years in technical leadership.

Responsibilities

Drive technical execution, quality, and delivery for digital interconnect IP.

• Lead RTL architecture, microarchitecture reviews, and implementation through physical design handoff.
• Direct RTL development, logic synthesis, timing closure, and clock domain crossing verification for multi-GHz datapaths.
• Oversee DFT implementation including scan insertion, ATPG, MBIST, and boundary scan.
• Define and manage verification strategy, UVM testbench architecture, assertion-based verification, and coverage closure.
• Guide pre-silicon validation using emulation for link training and error recovery testing.
• Conduct technical reviews of RTL quality, synthesis QoR, and verification plans; identify root causes of timing violations.

Requirements

Core technical skills and proven leadership required.

• 15+ years digital ASIC design experience with multiple high-speed tapeouts; 5+ years in technical leadership.
• Expertise in SystemVerilog RTL design: complex FSMs, pipelined datapaths, and clock domain crossing.
• Demonstrated logic synthesis and timing closure experience on multi-GHz designs.
• Proven background in high-speed digital design for SerDes, PHY, or die-to-die interconnect.
• Comprehensive DFT experience: scan design, ATPG, MBIST, and boundary scan.
• Strong digital verification skills including UVM, assertions, and formal verification.
• Experience with emulation and pre-silicon validation platforms.

Nice-to-have: Experience optimizing latency/throughput/power tradeoffs for AI systems and mentoring engineers on metastability handling and low-latency techniques.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Synopsys

Headquarters: Mountain View, California, USA

Synopsys is a leading company in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP solutions. It provides tools and services for designing and verifying complex semiconductor devices and systems. The company plays a pivotal role in the semiconductor industry, helping engineers innovate and deliver higher-quality products faster. Synopsys is committed to advancing technology standards and offers a range of software and hardware solutions to its clients globally.