
software engineer Edinburgh, Scotland
Synopsys
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
45164BR
Great Britain-Edinburgh
Job Description and Requirements
At Synopsys, we’re at the heart of the innovations that change the way we work and play. Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the Era of Smart Everything. And we’re powering it all with the world’s most advanced technologies for chip design and software security. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.
Our Silicon Design & Verification business is all about building high-performance silicon chips—faster. We’re the world’s leading provider of solutions for designing and verifying advanced silicon chips. And we design the next-generation processes and models needed to manufacture those chips. We enable our customers to optimize chips for power, cost, and performance—eliminating months off their project schedules.
Virtual Prototypes are simulation models for a variety of electronic platforms in the automotive, enterprise, telecommunications or cloud market today. Our Virtual Prototyping team delivers these models to our worldwide customers and enables them to start with product development long before hardware is available.
In your new Virtual Prototyping Software Engineer role you will:
Based in central Edinburgh with flexible working from home arrangements.
Required::
Further useful interests:
Our Silicon Design & Verification business is all about building high-performance silicon chips—faster. We’re the world’s leading provider of solutions for designing and verifying advanced silicon chips. And we design the next-generation processes and models needed to manufacture those chips. We enable our customers to optimize chips for power, cost, and performance—eliminating months off their project schedules.
Virtual Prototypes are simulation models for a variety of electronic platforms in the automotive, enterprise, telecommunications or cloud market today. Our Virtual Prototyping team delivers these models to our worldwide customers and enables them to start with product development long before hardware is available.
In your new Virtual Prototyping Software Engineer role you will:
- Work in a team environment developing high-performance pre-silicon Virtual Platforms and processor models
- Integrate models and platforms from Synopsys partners and the open source community
- Configure and bring up complex software stacks and drivers on the simulated hardware
- Identify issues and investigate their root cause
- Work closely with other development teams, 3rd party suppliers, support engineers and customers to identify, implement and deliver solutions
Based in central Edinburgh with flexible working from home arrangements.
Required::
- Good programming skills (some exposure to C++ would be nice)
- Scripting Languages, preferably Python
- Problem-solving and communication skills
- BS or MS Computer Science / Electronics or similar
Further useful interests:
- Embedded and H/W
- Open-source software, ideally including QEMU
- Linux and Android OS
- Arm cores and/or architecture
Job Category
Interns/Temp
Country
United Kingdom
Job Subcategory
Interns
Hire Type
Intern
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