Sr Staff Application Engineer- FPGA

Synopsys•Sunnyvale, CA

4d•$157,000 - $235,000•Onsite

About The Position

Synopsys 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 have spent years in the trenches of hardware verification, close enough to the metal to know where FPGA prototypes break down and where emulation saves months of schedule slip. When you walk into a customer meeting with a sales team, you listen first. You map their design challenges, their timeline pressure, their past tool frustrations, and you shape your technical approach around what will actually move them forward. You have debugged enough bring-ups to know where customers get stuck: partitioning that does not scale, clock domain issues that surface late, debug flows that eat weeks. That knowledge makes you dangerous in a good way. You use it to de-risk their evaluation and accelerate their decision. You are not there to pitch features. You are there to solve a problem they have been losing sleep over, and you know how to prove it with real data, real benchmarks, and a proof-of-concept that lands. At Synopsys, you will work with ZeBu, HAPS, and ProtoCompiler platforms that define the category, and you will help customers see how AI is changing the game for hardware-assisted verification.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
10-12 years of hands-on experience in emulation, FPGA-based prototyping, ASIC design, or SoC validation, with deep understanding of RTL-to-hardware workflows and the design challenges that come with them
Strong command of FPGA architectures such as Xilinx or Intel, RTL design in Verilog or VHDL, synthesis flows, and hardware bring-up and debug under real project constraints
Comfort with travel to customer sites for evaluations, presentations, and technical engagements, sometimes on short notice to support active opportunities

Nice To Haves

Experience with ZeBu, HAPS platforms, ProtoCompiler, or similar FPGA prototyping and emulation tools is highly desirable and will accelerate your impact

Responsibilities

Lead pre-sales technical engagements for ZeBu-200, ZS5 Emulation, and HAPS FPGA prototyping platforms, working directly with prospective customers to understand their SoC, GPU, and AI design validation challenges
Present tailored hardware-assisted verification solutions that address customer-specific needs around partitioning, performance, debug, and integration with their existing RTL and simulation flows
Conduct technical evaluations, proof-of-concept projects, and benchmarks that demonstrate how our platforms solve the customer's real problems, not just theoretical capabilities
Deploy AI-based hardware-assisted verification platforms at customer sites, guiding them through setup, configuration, and workflow integration
Collaborate closely with the sales team to shape opportunity strategy, qualify technical fit, handle objections, and move deals through the pipeline with clear technical milestones
Deliver compelling product demonstrations, technical presentations, and architecture reviews to engineering teams and executive stakeholders, tailoring depth and focus to the audience
Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with customer architects and engineering leaders that extend beyond individual sales cycles and create long-term partnership opportunities