Staff Application Engineer

Synopsys•Austin, TX

33d•$112,000 - $168,000•Onsite

About The Position

WE ARE 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 ARE You have spent years in the verification trenches and learned that the hardest part is not running the emulator, it is making it fit the way a customer actually works. When a testbench does not behave as expected or a model hangs three hours into a regression, you do not guess. You dig in, trace signals, check the logs, and work the problem until you understand what is actually happening. You are comfortable sitting with a customer's verification team, absorbing their constraints, their schedule pressure, their testbench quirks, and walking out with a deployment plan that actually works for them. You know the difference between a solution that looks good in a slide deck and one that survives contact with a real SoC project. Debugging across hardware models, software stacks, and verification environments does not intimidate you. It energizes you. You ask the right questions, coordinate across R&D and customer teams without losing the thread, and you do not escalate until you have exhausted what you can do yourself. At Synopsys, you will work with customers running some of the most complex verification projects in the industry, and the solutions you help implement will directly affect their ability to tape out on schedule.

Requirements

B.E/B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with 7+ years in applications engineering, hardware verification, or emulation support roles, or M.S/M.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with 5+ years in similar roles
Hands-on experience with emulation platforms such as Synopsys ZeBu, Mentor Veloce, or Cadence Palladium
Strong working knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL and verification methodologies including UVM or OVM
Demonstrated ability to debug and optimize interactions between hardware models, testbenches, and emulation infrastructure
Solid understanding of SoC and ASIC architecture, including how design flows and verification environments are structured
Experience with Python, Perl, or TCL for automation and workflow scripting
You approach problems methodically and do not stop at the surface-level symptom, you keep going until you understand what is actually happening
You can explain a technical tradeoff or a debug strategy to a customer engineer in a way that makes sense without oversimplifying the complexity
You work well across teams, coordinating with R&D, sales, and customer engineering groups without losing track of what needs to happen next
You are organized enough to manage multiple customer engagements at once and responsive enough that people know they can count on you
You are comfortable with ambiguity and can make progress even when requirements are still being figured out
You genuinely enjoy helping other engineers get better at what they do, whether that is a customer or someone on your own team

Nice To Haves

Experience with customer-facing technical work is a strong plus

Responsibilities

Work directly with customers to deploy and optimize emulation solutions for SoC and ASIC verification projects
Design emulation strategies that fit the specific architecture, testbench, and schedule constraints of each customer engagement
Debug complex issues that span hardware models, software interactions, and testbench integration, working with customers and internal R&D to resolve them
Build and deliver technical enablement sessions and workshops that help customers and internal teams get more out of the platform
Collaborate with product engineering teams to surface customer requirements, workflow gaps, and feature requests that shape future platform releases
Mentor engineers on the team, helping them build deeper technical skills in emulation methodologies and customer engagement