Applications Engineer, Sr. Staff Engineer

We AreSynopsys 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 time in the trenches of physical implementation, and you know that getting a design to close is only half the battle. The other half is making sure the customer's team can actually replicate it, understand why it worked, and apply it to the next tapeout without calling you at midnight. You think in flows, not just tools. When a customer says 'it's not converging,' you are already mentally walking through their floorplan, their timing constraints, and whether they are fighting the tool or fighting their own methodology.

You do not just answer questions, you teach people how to ask better ones. Walking a customer through a debug session energizes you because you know that the fifteen minutes you spend explaining why their clock tree looks like that will save them three weeks on their next project. At the same time, you are technical enough to roll up your sleeves, pull their database, reproduce the issue, and loop in the product team with a clear, actionable summary when it is actually a tool problem.

You have a point of view on what good implementation looks like, and you are not afraid to push back when a customer is headed toward a dead end. At Synopsys, you will work with some of the most advanced semiconductor teams in the world, and what you help them accomplish will show up in products millions of people use.

What You'll Be Doing

• Support customer adoption of Fusion Compiler by diagnosing complex place and route issues, reproducing problems in-house, and driving resolution with engineering teams
• Lead technical engagements with advanced node customers, defining deployment strategies that align tool capabilities with their design goals and constraints
• Roll out new product methodologies by designing and delivering training sessions, workshops, and hands-on enablement for customer engineering teams
• Serve as the technical voice of the customer to the product team, translating field feedback into actionable feature requests, bug reports, and roadmap input
• Collaborate with account teams to shape technical solutions during pre-sales and post-deployment phases, ensuring customers see measurable improvements in PPA and turnaround time
• Debug and optimize customer flows across design planning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and timing closure using Fusion Compiler and related Synopsys tools
• Build and maintain deep technical relationships with customer architects and implementation leads, becoming their go-to resource for methodology questions and escalations

The Impact You Will Have

• Accelerate customer tapeout schedules by resolving critical implementation bottlenecks that would otherwise delay production by weeks or months
• Increase Fusion Compiler adoption and deployment success rates across your accounts, directly contributing to revenue growth and customer retention
• Shape the product roadmap by surfacing real-world use cases and gaps that engineering teams would not see without your field insight
• Reduce customer support escalations by enabling teams to solve their own problems through better training, documentation, and methodology guidance
• Influence how the next generation of AI, automotive, and hyperscale chips get implemented by working with customers pushing the edge of process technology
• Strengthen Synopsys' reputation as a trusted technical partner, not just a tool vendor, by consistently delivering solutions that work in production
• Help define best practices and reference flows that get reused across multiple customer engagements and become part of the standard methodology

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Deep expertise in place and route methodologies, including floorplanning, placement optimization, clock tree synthesis, routing, and timing closure
• Proven experience with Synopsys Fusion Compiler in a production design environment or customer-facing role
• Strong working knowledge of static timing analysis (STA) and low power design flows, including multi-voltage domains and power gating techniques
• Proficiency in TCL scripting for automation, flow customization, and debug
• Experience with advanced node designs (7nm and below) is a strong plus
• Ability to travel to customer sites as needed, typically 20-30% depending on account needs

Who You Are

• You can walk into a room where a customer's design is failing timing by 500ps and leave two hours later with a clear plan, a list of owners, and everyone aligned on next steps
• When a customer pushes back on a recommended flow change, you do not just defend it, you explain the tradeoff in terms of their schedule, their PPA targets, and their team's capacity
• You are comfortable presenting technical content to both hands-on engineers who want to see waveforms and directors who want to know if this will delay the tapeout
• Ambiguity does not slow you down. If the customer has not fully defined their problem, you ask the right questions to get to the root cause without waiting for a perfect ticket
• You keep track of multiple customer engagements at once without dropping threads, and you know when to escalate internally before a small issue becomes a crisis
• You genuinely enjoy teaching, and you measure success not just by whether the issue got solved, but by whether the customer can solve the next one on their own

The Team You'll Be Part Of

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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.