Applications Engineering, Sr Engineer

At Synopsys, you will work on real customer designs across analog, RF, and mixed-signal domains, and what you deploy will directly affect whether their chip ships on schedule.

As an Applications Engineering, Sr Engineer, you have worked in analog or custom design long enough to understand what breaks and why. You know the difference between a tool problem and a methodology problem, and you have learned to ask the right questions to figure out which one you are dealing with.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading technical evaluations and benchmarks for customers, demonstrating Synopsys Custom Implementation Platform on their actual design challenges with guidance from senior team members
• Deploying analog simulation flows including SPICE, FastSPICE, and mixed-signal simulation for customer design teams working on custom digital, analog, RF, and memory blocks
• Debugging simulation convergence issues, performance bottlenecks, and methodology gaps in customer environments, escalating to senior engineers when needed
• Demonstrating cloud-based analog design flows, showing customers how to run complete custom implementation workflows through cloud infrastructure
• Delivering technical training sessions and providing on-site support to customer design teams
• Documenting customer issues and enhancement requests, then working with senior engineers to communicate these effectively to R&D and product management
• Supporting pre-sales activities by partnering with sales teams to deliver methodology presentations and product demos during competitive evaluations

The impact you will have:

• Enabling customer tape outs by resolving simulation and methodology issues that would otherwise delay their schedules
• Helping win competitive evaluations by delivering credible technical demonstrations and building trust with customer engineering teams
• Accelerating customer adoption of Synopsys tools by making the deployment process smoother and answering their questions before they become blockers
• Contributing to product improvements by identifying usability gaps and customer pain points based on what you see in real production environments
• Building relationships with customer design teams that create opportunities for broader Synopsys adoption across their organization
• Developing reusable methodologies and solutions that can be leveraged across multiple customer engagements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• A Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or Bachelor's degree in EE/CS with 2+ years of relevant experience as a circuit designer or CAD engineer
• Solid understanding of full custom and analog design flow 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, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly to designers and summarize business impact for managers
• Willingness to travel for customer visits, training sessions, and on-site support as needed