[Hiring] Senior Staff Applications Engineer @Synopsys

Role Description

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 moving between RTL, FPGAs, and real hardware, and you know that the gap between a design that compiles and one that actually boots is where most projects stall.
• You understand partitioning tradeoffs, clock domain crossings, and why a PCIe link trains in simulation but fails on the board.
• You have debugged DDR timing issues at 2 a.m., explained why a billion-gate SoC will not fit without rearchitecture, and walked a customer through a critical bring-up when everything seemed broken.
• You do not just run tools. You understand what ProtoCompiler is doing under the hood, why timing closed on FPGA A but not FPGA B, and how to instrument a design for visibility without destroying performance.
• When a customer escalation lands, you are the person who can reproduce it, explain it to R&D, and propose a workaround that actually works in production.
• You have worked with hyperscalers, automotive teams, AI chip startups, or aerospace groups building systems too complex to simulate.
• You speak their language. You know the difference between emulation and prototyping, and you can articulate when each makes sense without sounding like a sales pitch.

At Synopsys, you will work on the hardest prototyping problems in the industry with customers who are building the next generation of AI, automotive, and datacenter silicon.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent hands-on experience
• 10+ years working in FPGA implementation, ASIC design, ASIC verification, hardware-assisted verification, FPGA prototyping, or emulation
• Deep expertise in FPGA synthesis, place-and-route, multi-FPGA partitioning, timing closure, and constraint development using Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, or equivalent tools
• Strong working knowledge of SystemVerilog, UVM, assertions, functional coverage, and verification testbench architecture
• Hands-on experience with interface IP including PCIe, DDR4/DDR5, LPDDR, Ethernet, USB, AXI, CXL, or high-speed SerDes protocols
• Proficiency in Tcl, Python, or shell scripting for automation and flow development
• Direct experience with Synopsys HAPS and ProtoCompiler is a strong plus, as is experience with ZeBu, Palladium, Protium, or Veloce emulation platforms

Requirements

• Lead technical deployments of HAPS-200 and ProtoCompiler for strategic customers building billion-gate SoCs across AI/ML, automotive, hyperscaler, and aerospace segments
• Drive the full ASIC-to-FPGA flow including partitioning, clock conversion, synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, bitstream generation, and hardware bring-up on multi-FPGA systems
• Debug complex interface IP subsystems including DDR4/DDR5, LPDDR5/6/7, HBM, PCIe Gen3-6, CXL, UCIe, Ethernet, USB, AXI, and high-speed SerDes architectures
• Reproduce, analyze, and resolve critical customer escalations involving RTL issues, partitioning failures, timing violations, protocol mismatches, and hardware bring-up failures
• Collaborate directly with ProtoCompiler R&D and Product Management to validate new features, influence roadmap priorities, and represent customer requirements in product planning
• Develop and document reusable methodologies for partitioning strategies, clock architecture, debug instrumentation, verification environment adaptation, and hardware/software co-validation
• Mentor applications engineers globally, lead technical workshops and architecture reviews, and represent Synopsys at customer sites, conferences, and industry forums

Benefits

• Comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits
• Monetary and non-monetary offerings
• Annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses may be available
• Competitive total rewards package

Company Description

At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.