Senior Applications Engineer - Custom Implementation Platform

Synopsys•Sunnyvale, CA

7d•$109,000 - $163,000•Remote

About The Position

Synopsys is seeking a Senior Applications Engineer for its Custom Implementation Platform Applications Engineering team. The role supports customers using Synopsys AMS and Custom Design products across analog, mixed-signal, RF, memory, and custom digital design flows. The engineer will lead customer engagements with guidance from senior colleagues, deploy and demonstrate simulation and cloud-based implementation flows, troubleshoot customer issues, and help customers adopt effective design methodologies. The position involves close collaboration with sales, product engineering, and R&D, as well as opportunities to contribute customer feedback and reusable solutions to product and methodology improvements. The role is remote eligible and based in Sunnyvale, California, with travel for customer visits, training, and on-site support as needed.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or a bachelor’s degree in EE/CS and at least 2 years of relevant experience as a circuit designer or CAD engineer.
Solid understanding of full-custom and analog design flows, including schematic capture, layout, analog verification, and physical verification.
Hands-on experience with analog or mixed-signal simulation, ideally using SPICE, FastSPICE, or similar tools in a production design environment.
Scripting skills in TCL, Perl, or Python to automate workflows, debug customer setups, and build deployment solutions.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues to designers and summarize business impact for managers.
Willingness to travel for customer visits, training sessions, and on-site support as needed.

Responsibilities

Lead technical evaluations and benchmarks, demonstrating the Synopsys Custom Implementation Platform against customers’ design challenges with guidance from senior team members.
Deploy analog simulation flows, including SPICE, FastSPICE, and mixed-signal simulation, for custom digital, analog, RF, and memory design teams.
Debug simulation convergence issues, performance bottlenecks, and methodology gaps in customer environments, escalating issues when needed.
Demonstrate cloud-based analog design flows and complete custom implementation workflows using cloud infrastructure.
Deliver technical training and on-site support, helping customer teams adopt best practices across schematic, layout, analog verification, and physical verification.
Document customer issues and enhancement requests and communicate them to R&D and product management with senior engineers.
Support pre-sales activities with sales teams through methodology presentations and product demonstrations during competitive evaluations.